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.
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.
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JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The New York Times lost a critical effort to block the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears. We have previously discussed retraction statutes that can limit damages or actions. ” The New York Times issued a correction, but not a retraction.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2023
Federal prosecutors in New York indicted the bank in 2019 on charges that it had participated in a multi-year scheme to launder billions of dollars stemming from the sales of Iranian oil and natural gas, in violation of U.S. But the court left the door open for the bank to press a different immunity argument in the lower courts.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 6, 2023
There are 33 states with retraction statutes. If a full and effective retraction is issued (and published as prominently as the offending statement), it can limit damages or bar punitive damages entirely in some states. In New York Times v. Other states effectively make such a letter a required step.
The Fashion Law
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
On the heels of the high fashion retailer and the magazine publisher pushing back against the models’ claims in respective motions to dismiss, and a New York federal court stripping down the case, Condé Nast is trying to get the rest of the case – including the plaintiffs’ right of publicity and unjust enrichment claims – tossed out. .
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. American courts have long recognized that broad defamation rule are inimical to free speech. 47 U.S.C. §
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