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Punitive damages and rejected pleas

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Share This week we highlight petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether an award of punitive damages that doubles the compensatory damages can comport with due process and how a defendant can prove ineffective assistance of counsel in rejecting a plea offer. After a jury trial in the U.S.

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Connecticut judge orders conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $473M in punitive defamation damages for Sandy Hook comments

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Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis Thursday ruled that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1 billion verdict handed down last month, for his defamatory statements about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. million in damages to other Sandy Hook parents.

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Iran court issues $312.9M judgment against US over 2017 Tehran terrorist attack

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The report stated that the Iran Judiciary’s ruling aims to prevent further US violations of international law. ” The lawsuit began when families of victims of the attacks sued the US for damages. 199 million of the damages awarded are for punitive damages against the US. .”

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ECHR finds Romania violated same-sex couples’ rights in denying marriage recognition

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Under current Romanian law, marriage is only recognized between a man and a woman. ” The couples then filed suit to the court, arguing that Romania’s laws violated their right to respect for their private and family lives and amounted to “discrimination against them on the grounds of their sexual orientation.”

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Court rules federal immunity law does not shield Turkish bank from U.S. prosecution

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The justices rejected the bank’s contention that because the Turkish government owns a majority share of the bank, known as Halkbank, it is immune from prosecution under a federal law that generally prohibits lawsuits against foreign governments in U.S. courts for its role in a conspiracy to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran.

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

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Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma , the court held that the NCAA could, in the interest of preserving the character and quality of college sports, impose restrictions upon players that would otherwise breach antitrust laws. In its petition, TransUnion asked the court to settle two questions.

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In mostly humdrum order list, court adds no new cases to its docket

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in which Epic has asked the justices to weigh in on whether a state law that places a cap on punitive damages can provide the kind of fair notice that the Supreme Court has said the Constitution’s due process clause requires, so that a punitive damages award that complies with the law passes constitutional muster.