Sentences with phrase «awards in defamation actions»

Since Florida permits damages awards in defamation actions based on elements other than injury to reputation, and there was competent evidence here to permit the jury to assess the amount of such injury, the first of these conditions was satisfied.

Not exact matches

Either courts are awarding punitive damages in situations that do not warrant such an award, or else defamation actions frequently involve malicious and oppressive conduct.

Another approach to avoid this concern might be to regard immunity as inapplicable to a proceeding which relates directly to another, non-immune underlying proceeding only where it is a necessary or readily foreseeable corollary of that underlying proceeding — as is the case with proceedings to enforce a foreign arbitral award, but not, presumably, with a defamation action arising from statements made in an earlier proceeding.

The primary remedy in defamation actions is the award of damages, and claimants may also seek an injunction against repetition of the publication complained of.