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Case preview: Justices to consider effect of change in government policy on cases seeking symbolic damages

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The students push back against the idea that allowing claims for nominal damages to go forward even after the policy at the heart of a lawsuit has been changed will create an incentive for plaintiffs to run up large legal bills. Nominal damages, the officials reason, are not simply “a small amount of compensatory damages.”

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. Attorney General , which held in 2005 that, to establish derivative citizenship under the since-amended version of 8 U.S.C. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Alabama Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to TVA Environmental Review of Rate Changes for Distributed Energy. The complaint asked the court for compensatory damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit. Oceana, Inc. Ross , No. 1:12-cv-00041 (D.D.C.

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The Curious Fraud Case Against Trump Just Got ‘Curiouser’

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The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. The charges brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James were curious from the start. The case involved the practice of the company to repair and repaint cars damaged in transit without telling the customers.

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Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award

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Attorney General Letitia James declared not only that Trump would be barred from doing business in New York for three years, but that the damages would come to roughly $460 million once interest was included. In that case, BMW was found to have repainted luxury cars damaged in transit without telling buyers.

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