Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

On the other hand, insurability could guarantee payment where the defendant lacks the financial capacity, and the punitive and deterrent effect could still be achieved by imposing higher premiums and the tortfeasor having difficulties finding a new insurer.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested to Waggoner that most lawsuits would still be able to go forward even if a request for nominal damages, standing alone, was not enough to keep a case alive. Alito pressed Pinson, asking whether an award of $10 in statutory damages would be large enough for the lawsuit to go forward.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. American courts have long recognized that broad defamation rule are inimical to free speech.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

A New York federal judge rejected former US President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial or judgment in his favor on Thursday in the defamation case won by E. million in compensatory and $65 million in punitive damages—but Judge Lewis Kaplan found his motion “without merit.” Jean Carroll.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2024

Alina Habba filed the letter after the publication of a New York Post article in which an unnamed source stated that Judge Kaplan had a previous “mentor type” relationship with the plaintiff’s lead counsel, Roberta Kaplan (no relation). .” million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. New York allows the admission of testimonial hearsay to prove an aggravating factor at a capital sentencing hearing. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The former columnist is seeking compensatory damages from Trump, claiming that the ex-president raped her in the 1990s and has continued to defame her through the present.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The State seeks compensatory damages, penalties for violation of the Consumer Fraud Act, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, and costs of suit. The City sought compensatory damages, treble damages under the Unfair Trade Practices Act, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. That may be a common practice in New York real estate, but it is not a good practice.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) rule creating new product classes for short cycle washers and dryers (discussed above) and the DOE rule establishing an interim waiver process for test procedures for the energy efficiency program. New York v. 19, 2021); New York v. New York v. 21-1026 (D.C. 21-1035 (D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Lacewell , a challenge to a New York regulation that requires employers to fund abortions through their employee health plans. involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. Epic Systems Corp v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Below is my column in The Hill on the $355 million verdict against Trump and his corporation in New York. The damages in my view are excessive and absurd after the court acknowledged that no one lost a dime in these exchanges. New York Gov. The impact on New York business is likely to be dire.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s future remains uncertain following a report by the state attorney general’s office concluding that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women throughout his recent political career — breaking state and federal laws, NBC News and The City NYC report. . Photo by Welington Abraham Trump via Flickr.

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