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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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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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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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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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. Perlmutter alleges an in-house…

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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. Could the judgment be enforced in Japan where punitive damages are considered as contrary to public policy?

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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. It awarded $145,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.

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LegalReader

MAY 18, 2022

Penalties through the civil courts come in the form of 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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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.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2023

” 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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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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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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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2022

Diaz sought damages for solely emotional injury. Ruling that Tesla failed to take “all reasonable steps necessary” to prevent such harassment, the jury awarded Diaz $130 million in punitive damages, $4.5 in past compensatory damages and $2.4 million in future compensatory damages.

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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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Mondaq

JANUARY 10, 2022

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

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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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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. Comet had sought compensatory damages of $32.5

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2023

While the standard for non-punitive damages was met, the court did not name an amount. The applicants’ claims for punitive damages were rejected. The post ECHR finds Romania violated same-sex couples’ rights in denying marriage recognition appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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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JURIST

MAY 17, 2021

The jury awarded Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages, but the federal judge overseeing the trial reduced the punitive damages to $20 million. The jury also awarded Hardeman $5 million in compensatory damages for past and future pain and suffering.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

She is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. It also brings claims of intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress along with others like assault and battery against von Ehlinger. The filed complaint states that the woman worked as a Legislative Page in 2020 and became an intern in 2021 for the Idaho Legislature.

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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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Mondaq

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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

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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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Law 360

MAY 3, 2023

million in compensatory damages and $120 million in punitive damages against Farmers Group Inc. for allegedly implementing a discriminatory policy that forced older agents out, arguing that a Farmers Group CEO's email stating its agents were "s**t" shows malice warranting punitives.

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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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JURIST

MAY 22, 2022

The federal jury awarded Beal compensatory damages to the tune of USD 5 million for hearing loss and tinnitus, and USD 72.5 million in punitive damages. 3M intends to appeal the verdict and damages, as well as those of its nine other unfavorable verdicts that it has not yet appealed.

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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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LegalReader

APRIL 20, 2022

Punitive damages or exemplary damages punish a party for its irresponsible behavior, and these damages typically far exceed the amount awarded for compensatory ones.

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LegalReader

JULY 13, 2022

These are called punitive damages. Minnesota law allows for additional compensation to punish certain defendants.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2022

The complaint demanded an order banning the use of non-lethal weapons on peaceful protesters, as well as compensatory damages and punitive damages. The lawsuit claimed that the Denver police’s excessive force violated the protesters’ First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2023

Silva is demanding nominal, compensatory and punitive damages amounting to $1 million. Furthermore, according to Silva, all the defendants knew they were aiding in a murder and had the mens rea (guilty mind) needed to trigger the application of both statutes.

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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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