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US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1B in Sandy Hook defamation case

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Conspiracy theorist radio show host Alex Jones Wednesday was ordered to pay families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and a first responder approximately $965 million in compensatory damages. million compensatory damages and $45.2 A Connecticut court issued the verdict after four weeks of trial.

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Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $4M to Sandy Hook Parents

The Crime Report

A Texas jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million — significantly less than the $150 million being sought — in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, reports the Associated Press. The plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Bankston insisted that the $4.11

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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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Former ISU Football Coach Sues After Being Allegedly Fired Over the Replacement of a BLM Poster on his Door

JonathanTurley

The Plan also promised “education” for Lyons, all athletic administrators, and coaches on “diversity, equity, and anti-racism.”. In some cases, faculty have been suspended or sent into training or education programs for racial sensitivity or put under investigation. Free speech is the life’s blood of higher education.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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A new case on public funding and religious education. Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. Last year, in Espinoza v.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Delaware Lawsuit Sought Damages from Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Change Injuries. The State seeks compensatory damages, penalties for violation of the Consumer Fraud Act, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, and costs of suit. Attorney General of Ontario (Ontario Superior Court of Justice). filed Sept.

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