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The Supreme Court of Japan on Punitive Damages…

Conflict of Laws

Written by Béligh Elbalti (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics – Osaka University). Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Introduction.

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Stern Rebuke: Auburn University Hit With Punitive Damages in Free Speech Case

JonathanTurley

Notably, the jury awarded punitive damages against the university, a relative rarity for juries but well deserved in this case. He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports. There seemed little balance struck in this case and the jury responded by hitting Auburn with punitive damages.