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Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Again Rules in Plaintiff's Favor in Earnout Provision Dispute

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. could later be ordered to pay more in damages for another claim in which Zurn ruled against it, but Alexion's counterclaim against Shareholder Representative Services, represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, is yet to be decided. Alexion is represented by Wilks Law and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
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Delaware Business Court Insider

Johnson & Johnson Must Pay $1B in Damages for Surgical Robotics Contract Breaches, Fraud

The opinion is a win for Ross Aronstam & Moritz and Selendy Gay attorneys who represented a shareholder group.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Opposing Counsel Found Noncompliant as Winston & Strawn Triumphs

U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay ruled BHI Energy's damages were based on calculations that were too speculative to comply with federal court rules.
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National Law Journal

'Vindication for the Soldiers': Syria Held Liable in US Army Wrongful-Deaths Case

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Syria is liable for $364 million in damages to the families of the late Staff Sgt. Alex R. Jiménez and Spc. Byron W. Fouty in a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act wrongful-death case filed by the Perles Law Firm and Meridian 361 International Law Group.
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New York Law Journal

Defamed Georgia Poll Workers Bring Giuliani Enforcement Fight to Manhattan

Plaintiffs are seeking an order forcing Giuliani to turn over property, or to be appointed as receivers with the power to take possession and sell his assets in order to satisfy the $148 million defamation judgment.
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Law.com

Hip-Hop Artists Face Breach of Contract Claims After Toronto Music Festival Postponed

The promoter, Remo Palladini, filed breach-of-contract complaints on Aug. 27 in the Supreme Court: County of New York. Palladini is represented by Christopher Cardillo, an attorney at Block, Longo, LaMarca and Brzezinski in New York. Counsel for the defense has not yet appeared.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

$2M in Punitive Damages Upheld: Court Finds 11:1 Ratio Acceptable

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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Texas Lawyer

Veteran Professor Seeks $2.5M In Compensatory Damages in Discrimination Suit Against Texas Southern University

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in federal and state courts.
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Delaware Business Court Insider

Cook: Default Judgment or Not, Plaintiffs Need to Show Work to Obtain Damages

Vice Chancellor Nathan Cook, in an opinion, granted Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and their investment fund only a fraction of the $1.3 million they claimed to be owed by the founder of a magazine they invested in.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Expert Witness Vindicated: Prejudgment Remedy Upheld

"I am thrilled the Connecticut Appellate Court upheld the use of a sociologist as an expert witness who could provide an academic basis for speech being interpreted as racist," Ken Krayeske of BBB Attorneys, the plaintiff's attorney, said.
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