The Supreme Court of Washington recently heard a case where the owner of property sued the lender that wrongly foreclosed on the property. The owner prevailed at trial court on both quiet title and damages for slander of title, and the trial court awarded substantial fees based on the slander...
ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES: SOME CASE LAWTwo historical documents are referred to, the first involving an extensive review of case history on the assessment of damages, by the House of Lords (1995) in the cases of Ruxley v Forsyth and Laddingford Enclosures Ltd v Forsyth, and the other being ...
Seven law school faculty members and one practicing attorney recently developed and taught a wholly new kind of law course based on an already published case stdoi:http://dx.doi.org/Daily, MelodyGuthrie, ChrisRiskin, Leonard L.Social ence Electronic Publishing...
4th 771 (2004):Procedural prerequisites to seeking punitive damages in an action for damages arising out of professional negligence of a health care provider do not apply to punitive damage claim alleging elder abuse under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act.Delaney v. Baker,...
parties' "fixation" on the LD rates during negotiations was evidence that they contemplated these would act as a cap on the total amount of general delay damages. In the alternative, it submitted that the contractual LDs provision ought to act as a cap on its liability as a matter of law...
aThe law imposes certain rules to govern the award of damages in any case where liability is proven. Just as the plaintiff has the burden of proving liability by a fair preponderance of the evidence, he has the burden of proving his entitlement to recover damages by a fair preponderance of ...
PLEASE REFER TO GENERAL ORDER 18-11.. IN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE, THE COURT MAY: (1) ORDER AN AMENDED OR CORRECT DOCUMENT TO BE FILED; (2) ORDER THE DOCUMENT STRICKEN; OR (3) TAKE OTHER ACTION AS THE COURT DEEMS APPROPRIATE. YOU NEED NOT TAKE ANY ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE...
Leading Cases on Company Law As the trend of asking questions have been changed by ICAI, I thought this might be useful. I compiled these decided case laws from various sources like RTP, study module, compilation o
In a case where police officers acted with contempt for the rule of law and had "tortured" the plaintiff to obtain a confession when questioning him at a police station, substantial exemplary damages had to be awarded.Ying Hui Tan, Barrister...
of "using a weapon in violation of law." Where an actor applies for state compensation on the ground that the bodily injury of a citizen is caused by the illegal use of a weapon by the people's police, the people's court shall not uphold such application in accordance with the law. ...