By Avalon Zoppo | August 28, 2024
Judges Reena Raggi, Richard Sullivan and John M. Walker Jr. on Wednesday said there's enough evidence for a reasonable jury to find actual malice.
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By Emily Cousins | August 28, 2024
However, the panel found that "the high degree of reprehensibility of Cromwell's conduct supports a significant award of punitive damages. And the fact that Cromwell's discrimination inflicted non-economic harms that may not be easily quantifiable likewise suggests that even a relatively high ratio of punitive to compensatory damages can survive constitutional scrutiny in this case."
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By Aleeza Furman | August 28, 2024
"This was the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catch-all immunity that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman, who represents the plaintiff, said.
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | August 27, 2024
"Taking [Alexis] Guerrero's factual allegations together and accepting them as true, we find that he has sufficiently alleged that Ollie's intended to discriminate against him on the basis of race and that the discrimination interfered with a contractual interest," Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin wrote, reviving the plaintiff's lawsuit.
By Avalon Zoppo | August 27, 2024
The panel found that the lower court wrongly dismissed the electric car company's allegations that members of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission and the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association conspired to stop it from carrying out its business model of directly leasing and servicing cars through its own stores.
By Jimmy Hoover | August 27, 2024
They won't get paid. It's going to be extremely time-consuming. There is no prior counsel to review their work. And they'll spend months drafting briefs and preparing for an argument where the best case scenario is achieving a victory on behalf of a client that does not exist.
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By Emily Cousins | August 23, 2024
"The truth matters," Leonard Isaac, the plaintiff's attorney, said. "Our system is built on it. When parties do not answer truthfully and honestly, and they have no probable cause for the answer they're filing, they're going to be held accountable for that."
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By Aleeza Furman | August 23, 2024
The company asserted in a Wednesday motion that one of the jurors behind the verdict later posted comments online suggesting the jury's decision was motivated by issues beyond what was presented at trial.
By Avalon Zoppo | August 22, 2024
Judge Milan Smith Jr. noted a disagreement between circuit courts on whether state claims arising in a bankruptcy proceeding must be lodged in federal court.
By Cheryl Miller | August 22, 2024
In a unanimous ruling, the court held that judges have a broad, although not limitless, authority under statute to impose reasonable sanctions for discovery misconduct.
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