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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. Thus the question above.

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Supreme Court to consider NCAA student-athlete compensation, class action rules

JURIST

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three new cases Wednesday, including two cases about compensation for student-athletes. The court consolidated the cases National Collegiate Athletic Association v. ” The court also granted certiorari in TransUnion LLC v. Alston and American Athletic Conference v.

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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. In its earlier summary judgment ruling , the court began with a discussion of the highly analogous case of Pickering v. He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports.

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Court to take on student-athlete compensation, class action cases

SCOTUSBlog

The Supreme Court agreed to wade into the controversial issue of compensation for college athletes, granting National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Over 35 years ago, the Supreme Court indicated in NCAA v. Ramirez then went to federal court, alleging that TransUnion’s actions violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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From Forever 21 to FC Barcelona, a Look at adidas’ History of 3-Stripe Legal Battles

The Fashion Law

Amid escalating behind-the-scenes tensions, Skechers filed suit against adidas in February , asking a California federal court to declare that despite adidas’s claims of infringement, it has not run afoul of the notoriously litigious German sportswear giant’s 3-stripe trademark by way of its 4-stripe Goldie-Peaks shoe. Crew’s mark.

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