Following a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $ 919.9 million in compensatory damages for defendant's willful and malicious misappropriation of 149 trade secrets, the Richmond U.S.
District Court awards plaintiff $ 350,000 in punitive damages: Virginia's Uniform Trade Secrets Act caps punitive damages...
In January 2004, the Tokyo
District Court awarded him $ 190 million (Science, 6 February 2004, p. 744).
The Virginia
district court awarded the PTO only expert fees.
Successfully defended leading heavy equipment producer in a patent infringement case relating to hydraulic control systems in which
district court awarded our client attorneys» fees and Federal Circuit affirmed.
Not exact matches
But without a majority decision on Halo, it could be more difficult for
district courts to
award attorneys» fees to prevailing parties in patent troll cases, which every year sap billions of dollars in such fees.
Conoco filed suit on Thursday in the U.S.
District court in Manhattan seeking to enforce the
award, saying the
court had jurisdiction because the ICC arbitration was held in New York and PDVSA had not responded to a demand for payment.
USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S.
Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school
district to
award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.
Davis Family Vineyards Files Trademark Infringement Lawsuit: Today, the
award - winning and family operated, Healdsburg - based Davis Family Vineyards filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement and unfair and deceptive trade practices against Napa Valley newcomer Davis Estates LLC and others in the U.S.
District Court for the Central
District of California...
As previously disclosed, the Company received a final judgment in its favor for a total of US$ 1.9 million plus interest from the US
District Court for the
District of Arizona in January, 2016 related to an arbitral
award of R$ 7.8 million, including interest and penalties, from a Brazilian arbitration panel.
RiceBran Technologies
Awarded Final Judgment of $ 1.9 Million Plus Interest from US
District Court Related to 2008 Purchase of Irgovel
The current $ 1.3 million reparation
award is related to amounts still owed to related companies Silver K Farms, Kirk Jacobs Farms and Reynolds Bros., according to records of a three - day bench trial in U.S.
District Court in Idaho in November 2016.
On remand, the
District Court and Second Circuit rejected the counties» affirmative defenses and
awarded money damages.
Nassau County appealed, and in 2014, a U.S.
District Court jury
awarded Restivo and Halstead a combined $ 36 million in damages.
Washington — Parents who win special - education disputes with school
districts can not be
awarded attorneys» fees if their cases do not go to
court, a federal appellate
court has ruled.
On February 14, 2005, State Supreme
Court Justice Leland DeGrasse, who had overseen the case from the beginning,
awarded the city a staggering $ 5.6 billion more per year for its schools, a 43 percent increase to the city's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school
district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the country.
Resurrecting long - ignored school desegregation lawsuits of the 1970s, the DOJ petitioned a federal
district court to permanently enjoin Louisiana from
awarding any vouchers to students in
districts operating under federal desegregation orders until the state had received authorization from a federal
court.
The Minnesota Supreme
Court has upheld an $ 820,000 compensatory - damages
award won by the North St. Paul - Maplewood school
district from the producer of an asbestos fireproofing spray used in a high school built in 1969.
However, the
court last month overturned $ 4.2 million in punitive damages
awarded in 1990 by a state
court jury in Independent School
District No. 622 v. Keene Corporation.
On December 29, 2015, the U.S.
District Court in Oregon
awarded a landmark settlement that will impact almost 8,000 workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state.
Subsequently, the
court upheld the
district's verdict and
awarded $ 175,210 (in response to the requested amount of $ 245,340) in attorney's fees, $ 12,474 in expert witness fees and
court costs, $ 108,495 in front pay and retirement benefits, and postjudgment interest.
Appeal from judgment entered by the United States
District Court for the Southern
District of New York (Mark D. Fox, Magistrate Judge), which held that defendant Board of Education of the Newburgh Enlarged City School
District intentionally discriminated against plaintiff Santina Polera in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794, and
awarded damages to plaintiff.
«(a) FILING AND EFFECT OF ARBITRATION
AWARD - An arbitration award made by an arbitrator under this chapter, along with proof of service of such award on the other party by the prevailing party or by the plaintiff, shall be filed promptly after the arbitration hearing is concluded with the clerk of the district court that referred the case to arbitra
AWARD - An arbitration
award made by an arbitrator under this chapter, along with proof of service of such award on the other party by the prevailing party or by the plaintiff, shall be filed promptly after the arbitration hearing is concluded with the clerk of the district court that referred the case to arbitra
award made by an arbitrator under this chapter, along with proof of service of such
award on the other party by the prevailing party or by the plaintiff, shall be filed promptly after the arbitration hearing is concluded with the clerk of the district court that referred the case to arbitra
award on the other party by the prevailing party or by the plaintiff, shall be filed promptly after the arbitration hearing is concluded with the clerk of the
district court that referred the case to arbitration.
«(1) TIME FOR FILING DEMAND - Within 30 days after the filing of an arbitration
award with a
district court under subsection (a), any party may file a written demand for a trial de novo in the
district court.
In 2005 the company won a lawsuit against National Union Fire Insurance relating to its director's and officers» insurance policy and was
awarded a $ 32.1 million judgment by the US
District Court.
Judgment on the
award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in the Superior
Court of Florida, Orange County, or the United States
District Court for the Central
District of Florida.
Attacked by two pit bulls while walking to work in November 2015, Joseph Mooring of Bryan, Texas on January 27, 2017 won the second - highest
award in a Texas dog attack case: $ 5.1 million for permanent nerve damage to his right leg and forearm, levied not by a jury but by 85th
District Court Judge Kyle Hawthorne.
According to the BMA on January 10, 2013, «The Baltimore Museum of Art is pleased that the U.S.
District Court of the Eastern
District of Virginia has
awarded ownership of the stolen Renoir painting, On the Shore of the Seine, to the Museum.»
Knight
awarded Order in the
Court $ 250,000 to turn a courtroom in Quincy
District Court into a test kitchen to for using new media to cover legal proceedings.
Representative Trial Experience: • Rosa Construction, Inc. v. Capstone Builders, Inc. et al. v. Sterling Savings Bank, Montana Eighteenth Judicial
District Court (2013): Five day jury trial resulting in the permanent discharge of Capstone's improper construction lien against Rosa's real property, affirming the priority of Sterling Savings Bank's mortgage on Rosa's real property, and
awarding $ 1,425,000 in compensatory damages against Capstone for recording an improper lien on Rosa's real property and interfering with the Bank's mortgage interest.
The
District Court denied Kirtsaeng's motion, giving» «substantial weight» to the «objective reasonableness» of Wiley's infringement claim,» and stating that» «the imposition of a fee
award against a copyright holder with an objectively reasonable» - although unsuccessful - «litigation position will generally not promote the purposes of the Copyright Act,»» and that no other factors «outweighed» that objective reasonableness to warrant fee - shifting.
Both Wiley and Kirtsaeng proposed that the
Court provide guidance to
district courts in order to direct their discretion in determining whether to
award attorney's fees to a prevailing party «towar [d] the purposes of the Copyright Act,» which the
Court articulates as «enriching the general public through access to creative works» and «enhancing the probability that both creators and users... will enjoy the substantive rights» provided by the Copyright Act.
A United States
District Court partially enforced an
award that covered multiple contracts, after finding that one of the contracts was not within the scope of the arbitration agreement.
An
award on the merits against the Russian Federation was delivered by the arbitral tribunal in 2012, while the parallel proceeding with the Stockholm
District Court dismissing the Russian Federation's plea for negative declaratory relief was not concluded until 2014.
Although the federal
court disagreed with the defendants» argument that the jury
award could only have resulted from passion or prejudice, the Southern
District of Florida held that the non-economic damages
award was not logically supported by the evidence offered at trial.
The Pechersky
District Court of Kyiv recently granted enforcement of an SCC arbitral
award in a case between Remington Worldwide Limited («Remington») and the State of Ukraine.
Section 505 provides that a
district court «may...
award a reasonable attorney's fee to the prevailing party» in a copyright action.
A U.S.
District Court rejected Argentina's attempt to vacate a USD 21 million international arbitration
award in a proceeding administered by ICSID under the...
«Construction Litigation: Fourth
District, Division 1 Reverses Fee
Awards Under Code of Civil Procedure Section 1038 and Reverses / Affirms Others Under Civil Code Section 1717 Main California Supreme
Court Refuses To Depublish Bernardi Decision»
The Supreme
Court has previously noted that the fee - shifting provision of the Patent Act, which permits district courts to award attorney's fees to prevailing parties in «exceptional cases,» is «similar» to Section 505 of the Copyright Act, which merely permits a court to award reasonable attorney's fees at its discre
Court has previously noted that the fee - shifting provision of the Patent Act, which permits
district courts to
award attorney's fees to prevailing parties in «exceptional cases,» is «similar» to Section 505 of the Copyright Act, which merely permits a
court to award reasonable attorney's fees at its discre
court to
award reasonable attorney's fees at its discretion.
• Boyne USA, Inc. v. Spanish Peaks Development, LLC & Lone Mountain Holdings, LLC, Montana Fifth Judicial
District Court (2010): $ 600,000 jury verdict and additional
award of punitive damages for breach of contract, deceit, abuse of process and other claims.
The Oberlandesgericht (Higher Regional
Court) in the
district where the respondent has (i) its seat, (ii) its usual place of business, (iii) an asset, or (iv) where the object of the arbitral
award is located.
• Stockman Bank of Montana v. Lien Corporation, Montana Eighteenth Judicial
District Court (2009): Trial concerning access to Bank owned commercial property in Bozeman, Montana, and
award of $ 42,000 to Bank for intentional interference with Bank's access rights.
One United States
District Court found that an
award for consequential damages was within the submission to arbitrate even though consequential damages were explicitly precluded by the terms of the underlying contract, in circumstances where consequential damages were included in the terms of reference and a reasoned
award by the arbitral tribunal justified their application.823
The
Court had previously provided some limited guidance in Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc., 510 U.S. 517 (1994), in which it held that a district court «may not award attorney's fees as a matter of course» but must «make a more particularized, case - by - case assessment.&r
Court had previously provided some limited guidance in Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc., 510 U.S. 517 (1994), in which it held that a
district court «may not award attorney's fees as a matter of course» but must «make a more particularized, case - by - case assessment.&r
court «may not
award attorney's fees as a matter of course» but must «make a more particularized, case - by - case assessment.»
On September 3, 2015, Judge Berman of the
District Court overturned the suspension, on the basis that there were «significant legal deficiencies» with the Commissioner's
award.
Following trial in December 2007, the federal
district court on January 16, 2008
awarded judgment to Judge Kendall, held the Commission lacked authority to remove members of the judiciary, and permanently enjoined the Commission from proceeding against Judge Kendall.
-- authored by Circuit Judge Hurwitz [majority decision] and concurring opinion by Circuit Judge Reinhardt; discussed in our Oct. 10, 2015 post:
District court in Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act case which substantially reduced fee request was reversed based upon its reliance on inapt practice area hourly rates, upon its discounts for plaintiff's attorneys not delegating tasks to associates given that only small firms prosecuted these type of cases, and upon its use of stale prior fee
awards involving fee claimant's attorneys.
We note that the Supreme
Court did not decide whether to award fees in this particular case, but sent the case back to the district court for further considera
Court did not decide whether to
award fees in this particular case, but sent the case back to the
district court for further considera
court for further consideration.
In 2013, he received the Massachusetts Bar Association's Community Service
Award, and in 2012, Kevin was honored with the Hampden County Bar Association's Access to Justice Pro Bono Publico
Award for vision and implementation of the Springfield
District Court Lawyer for the Day program.
The
District Court's judgment therefore was reversed, and the arbitration
award was confirmed.