all - Opinion Summaries

Porter v. Natsios

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Although plaintiff prevailed in his retaliation claim, the district court did not abuse its discretion in determining, under 42 U.S.C. section...

Cayuga Indian Nation v. Pataki

Civil Procedure, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
An award to tribal plaintiffs for the late-eighteenth-century dispossession of their land is reversed where plaintiffs' possessory land claim is...

US v. Bedonie

Criminal Law & Procedure, Remedies, Sentencing
Neither the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act nor the Victim and Witness Protection Act provides the district court with jurisdiction to reopen its...

Independence Party of Richmond v. Graham

Constitutional Law, Elections, Remedies
Defendant-Board of Election's appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction, which required it to permit plaintiff to open its primary election to...

Johnson v. Ford Motor Co.

Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Remedies
The Court of Appeal erred when it reduced a $10 million punitive damages award to $53,435 since it failed to adequately consider defendant's fraud as...

Simon v. San Paolo U.S. Holding Co.

Constitutional Law, Remedies
In a fraud action, a $1.7 million punitive damages award, measured against a $5000 compensatory damages award, exceeds the federal due process...

Swain v. Dredging, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Remedies
In a bankruptcy action, defendant did not violate the discharge injunction of 11 U.S.C. section 524 by delivering a copy of a pleading to the...

Bankwest, Inc. v.Baker

Banking Law, Constitutional Law, Remedies
The district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin enforcement of the Georgia...

Acosta v. SI Corp.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Remedies
In a construction defect case, an award of costs to defendant as the prevailing party is reversed and remanded since the trial court erred when it did...

Bedrossian v. Northwestern Mem'l Hosp.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Plaintiff's request for preliminary relief, seeking to enjoin his employer from firing him, is denied where he cannot make the requisite showing of...