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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. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. Cedric Vanleenhove (University of Ghent) gave a paper on “Punitive Damages and Public Policy”.

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Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime

JonathanTurley

James declined to explain how this law could be used against other businesses since actual losses or injuries are not viewed as necessary. In other words, the law could have sweeping applications, but we will know a violation under the civil law when we see it. Businesses would just have to trust her and her judgment.