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Compensatory damages equal to amount plaintiff paid for home affirmed in fraud case.

Day on Torts

Further, where the fraud was related to the purchase of plaintiff’s home, and the jury awarded plaintiff the amount she paid for the home in compensatory damages, that award was affirmed. M2021-01335-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 17175608 (Tenn. 23, 2022), the issues revolved around plaintiff’s purchase of a home. In Hogue v.

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Elon Musk and his companies sued for $258B over alleged cryptocurrency pyramid scheme

JURIST

The class action complaint filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleged that in 2019 Musk and his corporations, SpaceX and Tesla, purchased, developed, promoted, and operated Dogecoin. Ultimately, Johnson sold his Dogecoin in June 2022 for a loss of approximately 70% of his investment.

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Chancery court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over defamation tort claims.

Day on Torts

Where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was his tort claim for defamation seeking unliquidated damages, the chancery court did not have subject matter jurisdiction and the case should have been transferred to circuit court. The trial court denied the motion and ultimately found for plaintiff. In Lowery v. Code Ann. §

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Abortion Rights Took Center Stage During Busy Week for Supreme Court

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Several of the Court’s Conservative justices appeared willing to overrule both Roe and Casey.

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Abortion Rights Took Center Stage During Busy Week for Supreme Court

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. Several of the Court’s Conservative justices appeared willing to overrule both Roe and Casey.

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Judgment for damages void where defendant was not served with amended omplaint.

Day on Torts

April 1, 2022), plaintiff filed this negligence suit against defendant after the two were involved in a car accident. April 1, 2022), plaintiff filed this negligence suit against defendant after the two were involved in a car accident. Plaintiff argued, however, that the trial court should not have granted defendant’s Rule 60.02(3)

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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. According to him, data on punitive damages is well documented, delivering the required statistical data on frequency and severity of loss, which allows the inference of an average loss and therefore an adequate premium.