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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. On appeal, the verdict for compensatory damages was affirmed, but the punitive award was vacated and remanded for further proceedings.

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Georgia poll workers file federal defamation suit against Giuliani and OAN over election fraud claims

JURIST

Specifically, the suit claims that Giuliani and Trump’s legal team initiated the lie that election workers illegally instructed observers to leave and counted thousands of fraudulent ballots unobserved, and OAN And Giuliani amplified the lie.

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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. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.

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Court to consider emotional distress damages under anti-discrimination laws

SCOTUSBlog

From a practical perspective, the court’s resolution of Cummings might well affect the availability of emotional distress damages under additional federal anti-discrimination laws — including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.” County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 2CCV-20-0000283 (Haw.

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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But the Court rejected arguments that the government could be forced to meet more specific renewable energy and energy efficiency targets on the grounds that such sectoral measures cannot be independently directly linked to ecological damage. Notre Affaire à Tous and Others v. ClientEarth v. European Investment Bank (EU General Court).