Sentences with phrase «for egregious conduct»

Punitive damages, if the circumstances of your case warrant pursuit of an award that would serve to punish the defendant for egregious conduct.

These damages act as a punishment for some egregious conduct in order to deter companies from acting in the same manner in the future.

Not exact matches

These gay haters were cut from the same pattern as were those who conducted The Inquisition and the egregious, low down acts from the Fifties with their penchant for mistreating Blacks, as were those who used the Bible to make slaves out of them.

«We haven't funded a shareholder case for a couple of years now, so we are very strict on the view that we are only going to fund shareholder claims where we believe the conduct has been egregious.

«To us as a party, the most egregious of the faux pas committed by INEC is asking the APC to lawfully nominate a candidate for the supplementary governorship election without a valid and legally cognizable primary election of the party conducted within the mandatory timeliness specified by the electoral act.

Whether we're talking about free speech on Usenet, the policy questions of legitimate marketing and com - mercial activity conducted over email, or the desirable but spam - ish mes - sages that trip the filters and disappear, there is always friction not around the most egregious case (no one argues for Leo Kuvayev's «\ / 1@gR / - \» messages) but at the blurry places where spam threatens to blend into acceptable use, and fighting one might have a deleterious effect on the other.

The neighbor may be liable for punitive damages as well since his conduct would be egregious.

Congress, which has voted the funds for these agencies (NASA and NOAA, for instance), must be held responsible to subpoena the agency officials and records and to see to it that the culpable individuals are fired and prosecuted for their egregious criminal conduct.

As for the suggestion that the judge should have held a competency hearing, how could a judge conduct a meaningful «competency» hearing against a defendant when the judge was the incompetent party, i.e., «altogether uninformed» and «egregious lack of knowledge» on the issue of self - representation rights as admonished by the court of appeals.

71 Counsel for T argues that the state conduct was so egregious that a stay is the only appropriate and just remedy.

The trial judge's findings on the claim for punitive damages undermine the finding of conduct that was sufficiently egregious as to give rise to a claim of aggravated damages.

In the Court of Appeal, she argued that the damages were too low given the employer's egregious conduct and asked for a new sum of over $ 1 million.

Seven of the nine judges who heard the case agreed: «Honda's conduct in dismissing Keays was in no way an egregious display of bad faith justifying an award of damages for conduct in dismissal.»

Punitive damages are also available in many jurisdictions to punish defendants in those cases involving particularly egregious conduct which demonstrates a reckless or wanton disregard for the safety of the public.

«The contempt, when it's criminal in nature, is typically reserved for cases where there has been a failure for an effective civil enforcement, there has been particularly egregious conduct, repeat offenders or sentences where there have been violence or damaged property,» he said.

No matter how egregious the insurance company's conduct is towards the accident victim and how deserving they are of a punitive award for this bad faith, the accident victim can not choose to go to the Superior Court.

Unlike compensatory damages, punitive damages are imposed against a plaintiff to punish them for particularly egregious conduct and to discourage others from engaging in similar conduct.

There is reluctance on behalf of judges to wait for referrals to the law society, except in cases of particularly egregious conduct, he says.

Rather, they are a way to punish the defendant for intentional conduct or gross negligence — behavior that is so egregious that a civil court penalty is warranted in order to deter the defendant from committing the same act again in the future.

If the party responsible for an individual's catastrophic injuries engaged in especially egregious conduct, such as drunk driving, violent assault, very dangerous business practices, concealing known dangers from the public, or other grossly negligent or misleading behavior, the court may even find that the responsible party owes punitive damages, which are meant to punish the wrongdoer and deter future bad conduct.

West Coast LEAF joined a coalition of women's organizations from across Canada to intervene in the September 2016 inquiry into the conduct of Justice Camp, who came under fire for asking a sexual assault complainant why she couldn't just keep her knees together and making numerous other egregious comments during the trial.

For a proprietary claim to succeed, and irrespective of how egregious is the defendant's conduct, the defendant must have either assets of the claimant or assets which are substitutes of the assets the defendant appropriated.

One thing is for sure, where there is egregious conduct, insurers should be aware there will be significant aggravated and punitive damages awarded.

Reducing awards twice for the same past conduct is egregious unfairness to people who have already endured long years of unjust captivity.

It would take really egregious facts and serious damages caused by the conduct to make the case stick, and I doubt that you could find an appraiser willing to testify as an expert witness that this conduct rose to a violation of the standard of care for an appraiser, even if it was not a case of «best practices» in the profession.

In the event the members of the Citation Panel determine the conduct described in the complaint is sufficiently egregious to warrant a hearing rather than a citation, the complaint shall be referred to the Professional Standards Committee for hearing consistent with the policies and procedures set forth in the Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual for ethics hearings.

The court also stated that the Government would not need to show that Wilf engaged in egregious conduct to be liable for punitive damages.

Wilf also argued that even if he was liable for Act violations, he could not be liable for punitive damages because his conduct was not egregious.