Sentences with phrase «nominal damages»

The court held that the board breached its obligations by not using its best efforts to complete the deal, but only nominal damages ($ 1) were granted by the Appeal Decision.

On the topic of damages, the Defendant argued that it was a case for nominal damages of around $ 300.

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This is not a case for nominal damages.

Additionally, given that breach of contract is actionable without proof of damage (if only for nominal damages) a strong floodgates argument is likely to be deployed by defendants seeking to avoid liability.

As a result, the judge felt able only to award Levicom nominal damages of # 5.

Under Section 1983 damages can take the form of nominal damages, compensatory damages and punitive damages.

Given the rules for § 1983 damages, under which the court looks for concrete tort - like injury and does not compensate for the constitutional right itself, the plaintiff will receive little ($ 1 in nominal damages, in all likelihood) or nothing (qualified immunity lurks as an overwhelming defense) for her troubles in post hoc litigation, even if she successfully proves a violation.

The plaintiff typically will nonetheless attempt to prove damages at trial, as otherwise the jury may conclude that no significant injury resulted from the defamatory statement and return a verdict for nominal damages (e.g., $ 1).

In a nutshell, the opinion held that Oklahoma's anti-spam statute was preempted by CAN - SPAM, that certain errors in message headers were «immaterial» and thus not actionable as misleading spam, and that allegations of nominal damages could not support a claim of trespass to chattel.

In any event, if LeBron James is his son, why not claim nominal damages from one's child?

If you can not back up your claim that your injuries caused pain and suffering, you may receive only nominal damages (or even no damages at all).

«If A's argument had been accepted, it would have created the potential for a flood of nominal damages claims against local authorities all of which would inevitably have been pursued entirely at significant public expense.»

The absence of damage simply means that a claimant is entitled only to nominal damages.

The jury found a trespass but found no harm, with the parties stipulating to a later $ 1.00 in nominal damages, and the trial judge subsequently entered a permanent injunction to enjoin tenant conduct other than loading / unloading activities.

5 Nov. 17, 2016)(unpublished), defendants won a «waste» lease dispute against a plaintiff alleging two tort claims, and one of the defendants also won on a slander cross-claim (resulting in $ 1 nominal damages), but lost on three other cross-claims.

North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld summary judgment with respect to all of plaintiff's claims except one, which was remanded to the trial court for trial on nominal damages only.

In that case, while the claim for wrongful dismissal may have failed, (but consider the decision in Davidson v. Tahtsa Timber Ltd., 2010 BCCA 528, which provided for «nominal damages» for the dismissal even where none were warranted for wrongful dismissal damages), the court could still have awarded Human Rights damages, I would argue.

In that case, the stop is a de minimus violation of your civil rights justifying a nominal damages award of $ 1 to you and your attorneys» fees and costs and maybe a consent decree ordering the agency not to do that in the future.

Just days before the US jury decision in August, a court in Korea ruled that both Apple and Samsung had infringed each other's patents, but awarded only nominal damages because there was no possibility any consumers could have confused one company's products for the other's.

The majority view is that a breach of contract is actionable even if there are no economic damages proven in which case you are entitled to an award of nominal damages of $ 1.

The other message that burns brightly throughout HHJ Hodge QC's judgment is that establishing breach of duty is only one hurdle professional negligence litigators have to overcome: failure to prove causation means nominal damages; nominal damages means adverse costs; adverse costs means more pain for the client; and there is no need for a crystal ball to anticipate that inevitable conclusion.

I think the message is that claimants are open to go to court without medical - legal reports, but should expect only nominal damages such as the $ 100.00 in this case.

Shawanna Nelson Lumsey won her lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Corrections (see this New York Times story for background), but was awarded only nominal damages of $ 1.

The majority rule is that damages is not an element of a suit for breach of contract, so even if you suffer no economic harm, you can sue the breaching party for $ 1 of nominal damages.

Sometimes a lawsuit like this one is called a lawsuit for nominal damages.

In addition, current defamation law, which presumes more than nominal damages, provides plaintiffs with little incentive to prove special damages unless there is readily available evidence of such losses.

In all of the circumstances, and discounting the claimant's evidence to account for what the court believed to be his own exaggerated and dishonest description of some of his injuries, the judge did not see fit to award anything more than nominal damages in this case.

The Court also refused to award nominal damages, as the CVA viewed Blacklock's «position as trivial and the value of its copyright as worthy of circumvention».

LAW • A former Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe intellectual - property associate who alleged that the law firm broke a promise to promote him to partner can only seek nominal damages in his claim.

If the Saxo Bank Group at any time and for any reason, should become liable for the loss of any person and / or entity, including without limitation, if any provision of this disclaimer is, or at any time becomes to any extent or in any circumstances invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, the liability of the Saxo Bank Group shall be limited to such person's and / or entity's duly documented direct loss, which for the avoidance of doubt, and without limitation, shall not include damages for any incidental and consequential losses, damages for lost opportunity, damages for lost profit, statutory damages, nominal damages, punitive damages, restitutionary or disgorgement damages, damages for costs, including legal costs, and damages for any other indirect loss.

Not exact matches

Rushing wants Disney and the other companies to stop the tracking practices, destroy any personal data that they obtained thus far, and seeks «nominal and punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial.»

It is only affected adversely when: - you start missing payments - a short sale is closed (the damage can be nominal depending on the # of missed payments)- your property is foreclosed on by the lender either by trust deed or deed in lieu

@Boa05att: Yes, this is what has not been done in Fukushima, where the risk of a big earthquake had been calculated as once in 1000 years or so, which seem small at first glance, but yielding 1/30 within nominal reactor lifetime, which is very big, taking into account the potential (and then real) damage.

The nominal claim for damages is large.

They are sometimes only nominal — $ 1 or $ 2 (the $ 2 figure in the chart below is a $ 1 award adjusted for inflation) despite the presumption of damages.

Defamation therefore differs from most torts, which require fault and require proof of injury for compensatory damages beyond the nominal.

It also helps eliminate the incentive to litigate a meritorious claim with a relatively nominal amount of damages because it simply does not make economic sense for a party's attorneys» fees and costs to exceed the potential award of damages.

[8] A case that takes little time to present does not mean that damages are nominal.

The small claims court dismissed on a «technicality» which was not that they can't award punitive damages (the argument was «one can not sue for punitive damages if only nominal compensatory damages are found»).

What, then, is the legal basis for the claim against the solicitor, and what would the client have to prove in order to establish an entitlement to recover substantial (as opposed to nominal) damages?

On the appeal, the court held that there had been a conversion but that damages were nominal.

The documented psychological harm suffered takes the damages well beyond nominal amounts for embarrassment and humiliation while the limited number of people told and the temporary manner of communication (telephone rather than internet) go to contain the award.

The additional amount added to the premium is nominal if you'll try to compare it with the amount of uncovered damage caused by underemployed or unemployed drivers which may cause serious accidents which in turn cause heavy damages on property and multiple injuries to the people involved.

If your trailer is not listed on your policy, your insurer may reimburse you a nominal amount if it's damaged or totaled.

The damage looks very nominal so I thought wow thank god I bought the insurance.