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Remedies

The U.S. Supreme Court Adds Procedural and Remedies Issues to Its Docket

January 20, 2010

          Two of five cases the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear last week deal with the procedure or remedies that govern in federal court.  Both decisions may be important to federal court litigants in a wide variety of cases.

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The AIG Bonus Debacle

October 20, 2009

AIG has been in the news for over a year now for its fiasco involving the payment of bonuses to employees from government-loaned bailout funds.  Just last week, AIG was back in the news, seeking to pay additional bonuses.  The "pay czar," Ken Fienberg (the former head of the 9/11 compensation fund) is also trying [...]

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The Sun, the Stars and Stays

April 24, 2009

Is a stay the same as an injunction?  Do we really care?  The U.S. Supreme Court answered these burning questions Wednesday when it decided Nken v. Holder and poetically explained:  “The sun may be a star, but ‘starry sky’ does not refer to a bright summer day.”

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Exxon Saved From the Rocks: The Supreme Court Limits Punitive Damages

July 2, 2008

 
In a divided 5-3 decision, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court in an opinion by Justice Souter found the $2.5 billion in punitive damages awarded against Exxon for the worst oil spill in history to be excessive and reduced the award to $500 million, an amount worth about four days of Exxon’s profits.          [...]

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