compensatory-damages

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25A690 United Services Automobile Association, Inc. v. Estate of Sylvia F. Minor, et al. Mississippi 2025-12-12 Application compensatory-damages due-process fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages ratio-test state-farm This case implicates the due process limits on punitive damages when a plaintiff has already recovered substantial compensatory damages. See State Far…
25-6039 Allan Douglas Wilson v. Department of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship-rights compensatory-damages due-process evidence-preservation mootness-doctrine statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the D.C. Circuit's reliance on mootness doctrine to avoid addressing a case of first impression regarding temporary deprivation of citizens…
25-70 William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act compensatory-damages jury-trial punitive-damages retaliation seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retali…
24-523 A. W., By and Through J. W., et al. v. Coweta County School System, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights compensatory-damages disability-rights emotional-distress intentional-discrimination Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act allows victims of intentional discrimination to recover compensatory damages for emotional dis…
24-506 J. Michael White, et al. v. Lindsay Davis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied compensatory-damages due-process legal-authority punitive-damages reasonable-relationship state-actor This Court has held that a private actor making it's own choices under authority granted to it by the state, and acting on those choices, is not a sta…
24-252 Jason Doherty v. Patricia Bice, Individually and as Dean of Student Affairs for Purchase College, State University of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights compensatory-damages disability-discrimination emotional-distress title-ii Whether Compensatory Damages Available Under Title II of the ADA include Compensation for Emotional Distress?
22-1160 Albin Rhomberg v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Amici (1) abortion-litigation civil-rights compensatory-damages due-process first-amendment free-speech no-injury racketeering rico-damages standing takings undercover-journalism Respondent Planned Parenthood sued Petitioners over their use of undercover journalism techniques to investigate Planned Parenthood's involvement in s…
22-1010 Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo 1. Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory an…
21-1272 Monsanto Company v. Alberta Pilliod, et al. California 2022-03-21 Denied Amici (1) compensatory-damages due-process epa-regulation failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption preemption product-labeling punitive-damages 1. Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where the warning cannot be added to a product without EPA approval and EPA has repeatedly…
20-1426 Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s…
20-1177 National Medical Imaging, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bad-faith bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-petition compensatory-damages involuntary-bankruptcy jury-trial punitive-damages seventh-amendment Section 303 of the Bankruptcy Code governs involuntary bankruptcy cases. In an involuntary bankruptcy case it is the creditors, not the debtors, who s…
20-6763 Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts II2 and II4 of the Original Complaint "For false arrest" …
20-6167 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1653 arbitration-award civil-procedure compensatory-damages declaratory-relief federal-circuit federal-circuit-court henry-schein motion-to-dismiss standing summary-affirmance Question not identified.
20-219 Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (4) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-law civil-rights civil-rights-act compensatory-damages emotional-distress federal-funding rehabilitation-act title-vi Whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI and the statutes that incorporate its remedies include compensation for emotional distress.
19-6981 Vladik Bykov v. Steven G. Rosen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights compensatory-damages declaratory-relief discriminatory-motive Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities A section-1983 standing #1. Is absolute immunity a bar to declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? #2. Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act require a plain…
19-450 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing The Patent Act expressly provides for compensatory damages. 35 U.S.C. § 284. When the issues of patent infringement and compensatory damages are tri…
18-8990 Raszell Reeder v. E. Wheldon, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compensatory-damages constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect medical-records medical-treatment mental-health prisoner-healthcare I have genital herpes. I experience painful ulcers that appears in the open end of sores that are extremely painful. Also, herpetic lesions, systemic …
18-850 David Altstatt, Sr. v. Melinda Fruendt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived arbitration blind-vendors compensatory-damages eleventh-amendment randolph-sheppard-act sovereign-immunity When States voluntarily choose to participate under the Randolph Sheppard Act, and consent to arbitration of blind vendors' grievances, do the states …