JURIST

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Connecticut school shooting filed a motion Friday asking a Connecticut judge to order controversial talk radio host Alex Jones to pay hefty punitive damages, on top of the nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages Jones has been ordered to pay by a jury in the defamation case. The families are seeking the “highest possible punitive damages award,” which by one metric has been calculated to be as high as $2.75

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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.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2022

A Texas jury has decided that conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones must pay punitive damages to the tune of USD 45.2 These damages, awarded on Friday, relate to a defamation lawsuit. million in compensatory damages to Lewis’ parents, who sought USD 150 million.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 13, 2021

“Court: Florida prisoner can seek punitive damages.” ” Jim Saunders of The News Service of Florida has this report on an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued Friday. The en banc majority opinion is notable because it was jointly written by Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr. and Circuit Judge Beverly B. Martin , who often find themselves on opposite ends of the spectrum when prisoner rights are at issue.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 4, 2021

“Justices Sticking to Punitive Damage Limits After J&J Case”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report

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LegalReader

JUNE 2, 2022

As a general rule larger amounts of compensation tend to be available to victims who have sustained very serious and life changing injuries. .

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Above The Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

Puny Punitives : Alex Jones got rocked on punitives, but Texas law doesn't care about juries so he'll be just fine. The post Everything’s Bigger In Texas Except Punitive Damages — See Also appeared first on Above the Law.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 24, 2022

million in punitive damages for its role manufacturing dry cleaning chemicals that contaminated the city of Modesto's soil and groundwater, according to attorneys for the city A California jury on Monday found that Dow Chemical owes $56.3

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Above The Law

AUGUST 10, 2022

The post Punitive Damages Cap In Alex Jones Case Is The Ultimate Jury Nullification appeared first on Above the Law. Alex Jones is not going to be paying anything near what the jury determined.

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LegalReader

MAY 18, 2022

Penalties through the civil courts come in the form of punitive damages. Lawsuits & Litigation driving drunk drunk drunk drivers drunk driving accident drunk-driving laws

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Florida judge can seek punitive damages against a lawyer she accused of threatening to release her nude photos unless she acquiesced to his demands…

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The former legal chief for Farmers Insurance was awarded $150 million in punitive damages Thursday in a wrongful termination lawsuit claiming that he was wrongly…

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On Thursday 14 October 2021 an online M-EPLI roundtable will take place on private international law issues relating to the recognition and enforcement of foreign (mostly US) punitive damages judgments in countries outside of Europe. The event is organised by Lotte Meurkens and Cedric Vanleenhove and the Maastricht European Private Law Institute.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 3, 2021

Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Happy with the outcome and knowing that punitive damages cannot be enforced in Japan, you confidently proceed to enforce the remaining part before a Japanese court arguing that the payment you would like to obtain now corresponds to the compensatory part of the award.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Notably, the jury awarded punitive damages against the university, a relative rarity for juries but well deserved in this case. There seemed little balance struck in this case and the jury responded by hitting Auburn with punitive damages.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 3, 2021

Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter is seeking punitive damages against Chubb insurance for allegedly facilitating a DNA theft during a deposition.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

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.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 18, 2021

Neither federal law nor Iowa law required vacating $200,000 punitive damages award simply because the jury awarded zero in compensatory damages: You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The following case is the first civil IP case in which the SPC ruled to apply punitive damages

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Mondaq

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Florida Supreme Court just changed the litigation landscape regarding punitive damage claims

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2022

A federal judge Wednesday ordered former Pennsylvania judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan to pay more than $200 million in damages to victims in the 2010 “kids for cash” juvenile detention scandal.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The punitive damages award against the employer was the basis of the appeal

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Massachusetts' high court upholds a 2019 jury decision regarding punitive damages.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Thursday that plaintiffs cannot recover punitive damages from the state when a law enforcement officer uses excessive force. Punitive damages are awarded as a way to punish the defendant and to deter that same conduct in the future.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2021

After a six-week trial, the jury awarded the Pilliods approximately $56 million in compensatory damages, $2 billion in punitive damages but the Pilliods agreed to a substantially reduced total award of $86 million.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

A jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of California awarded Comet Technologies $40 million in damages on Wednesday, finding that a rival company had misappropriated trade secrets on equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the view of the U.S. solicitor general in a case in which a federal appeals court reduced…

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Mondaq

MAY 18, 2022

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently granted review in The Bert Company d/b/a Northwest Insurance Services v. Matthew Turk, et al., 14 WAP 2022

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Dishonest employees who are responsible for misappropriating funds from their employer may face civil judgment for the amount of the money they have received and punitive damages, in addition to loss of their employment

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LegalReader

JULY 13, 2022

These are called punitive damages. Minnesota law allows for additional compensation to punish certain defendants. Lawsuits & Litigation car accident car accident attorney car accident compensation car accident insurance car accident lawyer car accident settlement

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 23, 2022

billion in punitive damages in a product liability trial involving its… A jury in Georgia decided Friday that the Ford Motor Co. must pay $1.7

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Arbitration award against one of the nation’s largest mortgage loan servicers includes compensatory and punitive damages as well as the homeowner’s attorney’s fees.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Punitive damages are a special kind of compensation. These are damages meant to punish a defendant for some kind of malicious or reckless actions.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 8, 2022

Claims are resolved through the recovery of compensatory damages and punitive damages. . Lawsuits & Litigation wrongful death allegations wrongful death attorneys wrongful death claim wrongful death damages wrongful death lawsuits wrongful death lawyers

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.

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LegalReader

JUNE 24, 2022

In contrast to compensatory damages, punitive damages are awarded when a defendant commits deliberate, malicious, or fraudulent acts that cause harm to another person.

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