Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
by Salih Okur (University of Augsburg) On 8 and 9 March, scholars from more than a dozen different jurisdictions followed the invitation of Tobias Lutzi to discuss recent trends in punitive damages at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The conference contained five panels overall, which were split into three blocks.
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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Constitutional Law Reporter
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs and awarded each class member statutory damages and punitive damages. According to the majority, only plaintiffs concretely harmed by a defendant’s statutory violation have Article III standing to seek damages against that private defendant in federal court. Robins, 578 U.S.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 2, 2022
In addition to more intense storms, the municipalities allege other physical climate change impacts, including coral reef degradation and massive algal blooms, as well as social, educational, and economic losses, including increased immigration from the municipalities and damages to the agricultural industry.
FDA Law Blog
APRIL 23, 2021
The Court pointed out that its task was not to determine whether the ability of the FTC to substitute §13(b) for the administrative procedure in §5 and consumer redress under §19 was desirable, but rather to answer a “more purely legal question,” Slip Op. It did that by focusing on the text of the statute. hide elephants in mouseholes.”
The Fashion Law
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Such editorial – versus commercial – use of runway imagery stands in the way of the models’ ability to make plausible right of publicity claims, per Condé, as “it is well-established that … recovery under New York’s right of publicity statute is strictly prohibited unless a person’s likeness is used for trade or advertising purposes.”.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 30, 2023
Our sincere thanks go to all involved, not only at the conference and in the book project, but also to the legal scholars from around the world who have kept us constantly informed about publications of their own work on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. 166-172 (available here ) Brand, Ronald A. 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.
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