Sentences with phrase «justifying substantial awards»

This, however, does not consider the fact that lawsuit funding companies want to be repaid, and thus aren't likely to offer funds to plaintiffs who don't have strong cases justifying substantial awards.

A Chrysler employee failed to produce sufficient evidence of malice or recklessness to justify a substantial award of punitive damages in a Title VII hostile environment case, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

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Intriguing though it was, her relatively small show at the Turner Prize exhibition in Derry - Londonderry didn't feel quite substantial or developed enough to justify the award.

The importer appealed to the Supreme Court, which held that in copyright cases the «objective reasonableness» of the losing party's legal position carries «substantial weight» in deciding whether to grant attorneys» fees to the winning party — but that factor alone is not dispositive: a party's litigation misconduct or «repeated» infringement or «overaggressive» enforcement of claims could also justify a fee award even if a party's legal argument was reasonable.

Therefore, the court found that Mr. Chaney's retirement did not constitute a substantial and continuing change in circumstances to justify modifying the spousal maintenance award.

That makes this a case where a substantial cost award is justified.»

These considerations show that Wal - Mart's own conduct justified a separate and substantial award for aggravated damages.