Sentences with phrase «reduced the award against»

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At trial, a federal jury in Manhattan in 2014 awarded the EMI companies nearly $ 48.1 million, a sum U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan later reduced, resulting in a $ 12.2 million judgment against Robertson.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

«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.

Fiona Kendrick, Chair and CEO of Nestlé (UK and Ireland), has been awarded a damehood in the New Year Honours for «services to obesity», in the words of Private Eye magazine, which highlights its marketing of junk foods and lobbying against policies to reduce obesity.

The merit award helps to reduce peer pressure against students who perform well academically.

Securing a $ 380m award for Burlington Resources, Inc. (ConocoPhillips) in an ICSID contractual and investment treaty arbitration against Ecuador following Ecuador's imposition of royalties on extraordinary revenues, and reducing Ecuador's $ 2bn environmental counterclaim to an award of $ 40m in its favor.

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.

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

The ruling on April 12, 2017 came after a hearing on April 6, 2017 in which Cusipag sought to reduce the $ 350,000 damages awarded by Justice Sidney N. Lederman against Balita Newspaper, Balita Media Inc., Tess Cusipag, Romeo P. Marquez and Carlos Padilla.

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.

In deciding that the award of punitive damages against Wal - Mart should be reduced, however, Justice Laskin wrote:

Justice Kent slightly reduced the plaintiffs» cost submission and awarded $ 400,000 inclusive of disbursements and exclusive of appropriate taxes, noting that a party who is not successful against all defendants does not necessarily obtain a costs award against them all.

Concluding that the award against Ford was excessive, the court reduced the noneconomic damages award to $ 18 million and lowered the punitive damages award to $ 55 million.

The personal injury bar's argument against limiting noneconomic damages — that a jury's award of noneconomic damages should not be reduced to an amount determined by legislators because a jury can determine on a case - by - case basis to what extent to compensate a plaintiff for harm suffered — fails to address the difference between noneconomic damages and economic damages, and fails to take into account the intangibility of noneconomic damages awards.

If a jurisdiction decided (against my advice offered below) to allocate the retribu - tive damages awards to the plaintiff and her counsel, then the reprehensibility - based guide - lines approach reduces the problem of diminished incentives in the aftermath of Philip Morris.