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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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Iranian Court Orders US Government To Pay Damages for 2017 ISIL Attacks

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government and several individuals and entities, including former President Barack Obama, must pay compensation for the 2017 attacks by ISIL in Tehran, Maziar Motamedi reports for Al Jazeera. million in compensation for financial damages, while $104 million and $199 million were awarded for moral and punitive damages.

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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 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. The listed defendants in the case include the US government, former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W.

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

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In the district court, a jury awarded the plaintiffs more than $60 million, nearly $1,000 to each class member for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and more than $6,000 each in punitive damages. On appeal, the Ninth Circuit upheld the verdict but reduced the punitive damages to a little less than $4,000 per class member.

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

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The Supreme Court also granted a petition filed by credit-reporting giant TransUnion, which had asked it to weigh in on issues related to class actions and punitive damages. On appeal, the 9th Circuit upheld the statutory damages but reduced the punitive damages to roughly $32 million. The case, TransUnion v.

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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.