Sentences with phrase «court reduced the award»

The trial court reduced the award to $ 125,000 under applicable damages caps.

In the class actions Jeffery v. London Life Insurance Co. and McKittrick v. Great - West Life Assurance Co., the appeal court reduced the award given by a trial judge to $ 220 million, from $ 390 million.

Not exact matches

Such awards are usually appealed and are often reduced by appeals courts.

And given that Mr. Hogan has had financial ups and downs, the cost of the hundreds of motions his lawyers made is significant, and the chances the award is significantly reduced based on previous cases he lost making the same claims in federal court, it's hard to completely understand the motivations at play.

«The Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) has today informed Real Madrid CF the award for partially estimating the appeal made by the club against the resolution of FIFA that imposed a penalty of prohibition of registration of players during two periods of signings, reducing it to one, the window corresponding to January 2017,» read a statement from the club.

The DMV tentatively awarded the contract to the high bidder 10 months after New York advised the current vendor, De La Rue North America Inc., that because of «significant budgetary constraints» the state would have to reduce the cost of the contract, according to the court filings.

According to him, the court originally awarded him GH cents 105 million, being four per cent of a 1.1 billion Euro facility he raised from Banc Austria, but the money was reduced to GH cents 51.2...

Proof of public assistance, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Reference from Integrated Community / Communidad Integrada (ciiccolorado.org) Two most recent pay stubs W - 2 1040 Proof of children in the reduced - cost school lunch program Proof of unemployment benefits currently or within the last three months Proof of Food Stamps Latest award letter for Social Security or disability payments Proof of Medicaid Extreme medical expense or other demonstrable extreme financial hardship Court documents showing amount of child support or spousal maintenance

«Nintendo will appeal the jury's verdict and reduced damages award to the court of appeals.»

Deloitte had asked for a cost award to the plaintiff class of $ 90,000 and that that award be further reduced to around $ 72,000 to reflect Deloitte's cost of cross-examining the first representative plaintiff, who was rejected by the court.

July 4, 2011 - In this maximum injury claim for pain and suffering (Bransford v. Yilmazcan, 2010 BCCA 271) despite The Jury awarding a claimant $ 385,000.00 for pain and suffering and the Trial Judge reducing the amount to $ 327,350.00, the Court of... Continue reading →

Although a jury may provide a higher award, the court will reduce the amount of the award to comply with the damage cap law after the verdict is rendered.

The amount of fees was reasonable given that the lower court reduced the requested fees by 40 % to eliminate an award to plaintiff on unsuccessful claims.

A jury awarded her and her husband $ 1.5 million in damages for pain and suffering, but lower courts reduced that amount to $ 500,000 due to limits in the medical malpractice law, which was passed after the case was decided in 2003.

If you choose not to follow the Protocol, you issue proceedings and either your debtor is familiar with the Protocol or instructs solicitors who are, then the following sanctions can be imposed by the court: - • An order staying the proceedings which also requires compliance with the Protocol; • An order that if you have not complied you pay the costs of the proceedings or part of the costs of the other side even if you obtain judgment in your favour; • An order that those costs are paid on a more stringent basis known as an indemnity basis; • An order depriving the party who is at fault of any entitlement to interest or alternatively awarding interest at a reduced rate; • Depending on who is at fault the court can also order payment of a higher interest rate of up to 10 % above base rate.

The court also ordered a new trial on the issue of non-economic damages, should the woman's estate refuse to accept the reduced award.

In its April 2010 ruling, the Supreme Court adopted a rule that, ultimately, will reduce that monetary award by several million dollars.

In a stunning personal injury decision the Supreme Court has reduced a damage award for a brain injured 27 year old claimant.

-- 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.

In the Court of Appeal's decision, Laskin J.A. reduced the punitive damages awarded at trial by a significant amount.

Mr. Keays» has also cross-appealed from the Ontario Court of Appeal decision reducing the $ 500,000.00 punitive damages award he received at trial to $ 100,000.00.

One case saw a $ 4.5 - million award reduced to just $ 675,000 on appeal, while another lost out on a $ 2.5 - million jury award when the appeal court reversed the decision.

Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, reducing a Plaintiff's pain and suffering award by 20 % for failure to take reasonable steps to mitigate damages.

As a result, the Court of Appeal reduced the amount of damages awarded to Mr. Pirani.

The court may reduce the amount of damages awarded or even decide not to award any damages as of the date on which the employee failed to satisfy this duty.

As such, the court found that he had some responsibility for ensuring the employment agreement was valid prior to signing, which it was not, and reduced the notice awarded.

While the amount of wrongful death damages was reduced by the appellate court, the award is believed to be one of the largest in Louisiana for a victim of asbestos - related lung cancer.

In case involving First Union National Bank's violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Sixth Circuit holds that 1 - to - 1 ratio of punitive to compensatory damages is maximum federal due process will allow: And because the compensatory damages total $ 400,000, the district court's original award of $ 2,628,600 in punitive damages must likewise be reduced to $ 400,000.

The Court proceeded to hold that the Council's various breaches of duty required that the scores awarded to EAS be reduced by a total of 40 marks, and that the marks awarded to Woods» tender must be increased by 6 marks.

In reducing the award to $ 30,000 the Courts took into consideration that both wished to benefit their children and not their spouse.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently reduced the notice period awarded to a wrongfully terminated employee for his failure to properly read his contract before signing on the dotted line.

In reducing the original punitive damages award, the Court of Appeal balanced the legitimate objective of «punishing» the employer against a requirement of proportionality based on the specific facts of the case.

But «a judge reduced the award to $ 5 million, then the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., threw out the verdict altogether as barred by the church's First Amendment rights.»

The Court of Appeal11 reduced the punitive damage award to $ 100,000 against Wal - Mart and $ 10,000 against the manager.

The Court of Appeal overturned a decision by a trial judge to reduce a claimants award by 10 % for refusing to undergo cortisone injections.

Should the court find that the employee does not have a legitimate reason for delaying his or her job search, the court may reduce the notice period awarded to the employee.

The Court went on to reduce this award by 10 % finding that the Plaintiff failed to mitigate his damages by not attending physiotherapy which was recommended by his treating physicians.

In other words, if a dismissed employee is entitled to 10 months reasonable notice and 18 weeks» notice and severance pursuant to the ESA, the court will award the dismissed employee damages representing 10 months» notice and, presuming the ESA entitlement has been paid, will reduce the award of damages for the money already paid to the employee during the notice period.

In University of British Columbia v. Kelly, 2015 BCSC 1731, the Supreme Court upheld the Tribunal's decision and the wage loss damages but reduced the award for injury to dignity.

In cases where the plaintiff should have taken care and noticed the condition of non-repair, the court may find the plaintiff to be contributory negligent and reduce the damages awarded.

The Court would eventually award $ 21,000.00 for past diminished earning capacity, before reducing this amount to account for social assistance benefits that the Plaintiff had already received.

The court also held that failure to make reasonable efforts to settle and making excessive claims in time spent on a case may reduce the costs awarded.

For example, if the court or insurer determines the total damages in a claim are $ 10,000 and finds that you are 20 percent at fault, the amount of your award will be reduced to $ 8,000.

The Court decided, among other issues, that the period of reasonable notice awarded to a dismissed employee is not reduced as a result of an employer's poor economic circumstances.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario has outright denied Tess Cusipag's appeal to reduce the damages awarded in Senator Tobias Enverga's defamation suit against Cusipag and Balita superstar «investigative journalist,» Romy Marquez.

Further, there has been a strong indication from the Supreme Court that mechanically applying existing principles to award injunctions in lieu of damages for infringements of property rights in the lower courts is a flawed approach, which is perhaps likely to widen the scope for damages to be awarded in lieu of an injunction and reduce the readiness of the courts to award injunctions.»

If an employee fails to mitigate, the court may reduce any award for damages that the employee would have otherwise been entitled to.

On appeal the Court of Appeals awarded Husband 55 % of the entire marital estate and reduced the amount he owed Wife to $ 275,760.43.

The Court of Appeal reduced the award to $ 200,000.

On redetermination of an accounting of profits, the Federal Court (FC) rejected Apotex's claim that the profits awarded to Servier due to Apotex's manufacture and sale of infringing perindopril should be reduced based on alleged non-infringing alternatives (NIAs).