HowAppealing

JULY 20, 2023

High Court Adopts Per-Defendant Calculation of Punitive-to-Compensatory Damages Ratio”: Aleeza Furman of The Legal Intelligencer has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued yesterday. ’s Constitutional Punitive Damages Caselaw ” and “ More from Pa.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

.” Fifteen years after the murder of Litvinenko, the ECHR has ordered Russia to pay the ex-KGB officer’s wife, Maria, US $117,304 in damages plus $26,389 in costs. A request for punitive damages was rejected by the Strassbourg court.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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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LegalReader

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Economic and non-economic losses, such as lost wages, medical bills, legal fees, property replacement and pain and suffering are addressed in loss valuations with punitive damages in some cases.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

He is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. The post Man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse files suit alleging law enforcement conspired with shooter appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Freeman seek a public retraction of the defendants previous statements along with nominal, compensatory and punitive damages. The post Georgia poll workers sue far-right website over fraud claims appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. Moss and Ms.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

” They are seeking exemplary and punitive damages, along with a cease and desist to prevent PayPal from engaging in similar unlawful business practices. A spokesperson for PayPal has responded to ArsTechnica, stating : ““We will respond to the allegations through the appropriate legal channels in due course.”

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Thirdly, this survey considers 18 cases on choice-of-law issues relating, in particular, to capacities of legal persons, proprietary rights, employee contracts, mandatory rules, gambling and public policy. Fourthly, two significant decisions on punitive damages of intellectual property are reported. Rights in rem IV.D.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The post US and UK Rohingya refugees sue Facebook alleging dissemination of ‘hateful and dangerous misinformation’ appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. ” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial. .” ” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2020

However, punitive damages are not an available remedy in such older cases. Your gift of $50, $100, $200, or $500 will help JURIST to keep its legal news and commentary free and accessible to a worldwide public. Did you know that about 30 percent of charitable giving happens in December? Thanks for your support! DONATE NOW.

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LLRX

JULY 25, 2021

Four highlights from this week: Protect your smartphone from radio-based attacks; New emergency weather alerts set to begin in July - here's what they mean; Accused Capitol Rioter Forced to Unlock Laptop With Face Recognition; and Connecticut pushes cybersecurity with offers of punitive damage protection.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Well, now you do know it, and you know it thanks to UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz, who for over a decade has produced innovative, meticulous scholarship that harvests, then dissects, the details of policing’s legal landscape. Do we have legal mechanisms that can make it too expensive to continue to inflict these harms?

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In cases where an employer has acted with malice or intentionally broke the law, there may be punitive damages available.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2021

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) joined with several other legal entities in a lawsuit Tuesday accusing New York Police officers of race discrimination, police brutality and violating the free speech of a peaceful protester.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Individuals who discriminate are subject to “substantial civil penalt[ies]” as well as punitive damages and injunctive relief. The post New York’s Nassau County legislature passes controversial legislation permitting police to sue protestors appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The jury found defendant liable for intentional misrepresentation and awarded plaintiff $243,000 in compensatory damages, which was the purchase price of the home, and $250,000 in punitive damages. First, the Court of Appeals found that defendant waived his argument that the evidence supporting fraud was not legally sufficient.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2021

The rejected proposal would have allowed class members to opt-out and sue separately, but they would lose the right to claim punitive damages and would be required to include the opinion of a seven-member science panel on whether Roundup causes cancer.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2021

DC is seeking compensatory, statutory and punitive damages from the organizations for their involvement in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The post DC sues Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for damages from US Capitol attack appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It is also seeking actual damages of $150,000, punitive damages of $1,500,000 and disgorgement of Simon’s “ill-gotten gains.” ” The post Online gaming platform sues content creator over false terror threats appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Plaintiffs in the case are seeking a set of reforms in addition to compensatory and punitive damages, including an independent monitor to manage police reforms, additional protections against protesters’ alleged violation of First Amendment-protected protest, and declare previous actions taken by police in the suit as unconstitutional.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The court did not support high punitive damages but awarded 4 million shillings to each of four petitioners to compensate them for the state’s failure to protect their constitutional rights. The post Kenya court awards 4M shillings to post-election rape survivors appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 19, 2023

191) HAYAKAWA Shinichiro, Japanese Perspective on Legal Issues of International Surrogacy (p. 423) Enforcement of Foreign Judgment — Punitive Damages — Contrary to Public Policy Intellectual Property High Court, Judgment, September 29, 2021 (p. 169) Takami Hayashi, Transboundary Child Protection in Japan (p.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 24, 2023

Ultimately, Parker hopes to recover compensatory damages, restitution, punitive damages, legal fees, and costs, together with a judicial declaration as to the parties’ rights and responsibilities. ” ( Complaint , paragraph 101.) Perdue ~ Complaint Parker v. Perdue ~ Order on Motion to Dismiss

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JURIST

AUGUST 5, 2022

The court proceedings only pertained to how much Heslin and Lewis should be awarded in damages. Heslin and Lewis were given a default judgment against Jones in 2021 after Jones’ legal team did not supply the necessary documents for the lawsuit to proceed. Fontaine later died in a fire while litigation was pending. .

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Chugh LLP

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) is an insurance policy available to business owners and companies that protects them against lawsuits from potential, current, and past employees alleging that their legal rights have been violated. EPLI does not cover punitive damages or claims for criminal acts. conclusion.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 2, 2022

93A [Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act], punitive damages. Moreover, and aside from jurisdictional issues, given that the actual damage occurred overseas, an important issue would be to prove the causation link between the conduct of the defendants and the damage.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

in which it ruled that punitive damages awards are taxable income because they are “undeniable accessions to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete dominion.” The court reaffirmed its rule that income is something that a taxpayer realizes 35 years later, the Moores argue, in Commissioner v.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 7, 2024

By Du Tao* and Jingwei Qiu** With the increasingly close personnel exchanges and deepening economic cooperation between Mainland China and Hong Kong, the number and types of legal disputes between the two regions have also increased.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2021

District Judge Xavier Rodriguez for the Western District of Texas ruled that the Air Force was legally at fault for the 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas by Devin Patrick Kelley. million to the family of Sam Graham, including $5 million in punitive damages, in a wrongful-death lawsuit. A jury then awarded $16.7

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. That pushed the costs back up to more than $36 million for just the damages and interest to the grocery. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

11 CFR constitutes a fundamental principle in the EU legal order worthy of protection by way of public policy (AG Opinion, para. Since the Spanish court had ordered the defendants to pay a sum for damages it deemed to be compensatory in nature, in light of Art. The AG rests this conclusion on the methodological observation that Art.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2021

The complaint seeks punitive damages. Moreover, they could argue that he was following legal instructions if he did in fact delete the photos. Moreover, the destruction could be cited as adding to the need for punitive damages to deter future such misconduct. Rather than hide the incident, he was disclosing it.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2021

billion in punitive damages, claiming the 11:1 ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages was excessive. Campbell, which would have imposed a fixed 1:1 ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages for class action suits.

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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

Bazelon’s account of the Briley litigations shows us that our fundamental legal architecture, with its list of requirements for discrete, fatal errors, its time limitations, its denial of post-conviction counsel, and its procedural bypass rules, seeks the exact opposite of that resiliency. Finding Resiliency. You can download the clip here.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. This litigation should be a warning to all innovative legal technology providers.”. Series of Meetings.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

Even after a reduction for her own award and a statutory reduction of the punitive damage portion, Heard is still looking at $8,350,000 in damages. million more than her divorce settlement) to be justified in light of the damage caused to Depp’s reputation and career. Many view that amount (which is $1.35

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The Crime Report

JULY 1, 2021

Qualified immunity, which has been increasingly discussed in the wake of calls for police reform, is a legal doctrine that shields government officials from being held personally liable for constitutional violations so long as they did not violate “clearly established” law. Due to qualified immunity.

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