Government Laws Punitive Damages Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 7, 2021
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.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2023
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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The Crime Report
AUGUST 5, 2021
The Mexican government has filed a federal complaint in Massachusetts against Interstate Arms Corp. The Mexican government has filed a federal complaint in Massachusetts against Interstate Arms Corp. The government claims that up to 90 percent of all guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes were trafficked from the U.S.,
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Governments pay compensation to victims of crime from taxpayer funds with broad public support. . Certainly—and especially—in neighborhoods where race and class subordination have prompted aggressive law enforcement that much is irrefutable. . The maxim “good man, good result” governs the public space. Why would that be true?
At the Lectern
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
concerning California’s whistleblower statute. It followed a default judgment in the Labor Commissioner’s action for damages and statutory penalties against a since-closed night club after the club owner fired a bartender and threatened to report her to “immigration authorities” when she complained about unpaid wages.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Moreover, the case in Puerto Rico comes after recent litigation successes in Europe and elsewhere around the world, with courts holding governments and companies accountable for climate harms. Many of those cases include similar arguments that the companies knowingly marketed harmful products and misled the public about those harms.
FDA Law Blog
APRIL 23, 2021
It did that by focusing on the text of the statute. Indeed, the first (and very succinct) point in the Court’s analysis of the statute is that “the language [of §13(b)] refers only to injunctions.” Id. Supreme Court in 1999 that the agency lacked the authority to obtain compensatory relief or punitive damages.
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