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Related to punitive damages: compensatory damagespunitive damages pl.n. Damages, in addition to compensatory damages, required to be paid by a defendant as punishment for particularly egregious conduct and as a deterrent to others. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition...
Punitive damages, also known as exemplary damages, may be awarded to a plaintiff in addition to compensatory damages when a defendant's conduct is particularly willful, wanton, malicious, vindictive, or oppressive. Punitive damages are awarded not as compensation, but to punish the wrongdoer and to...
To make punitive damages work, we must first separate retributive damages from other extracompensatory damages meant to achieve cost internalization or to vindicate the victim's dignity interests. Because these three purposes are distinct, conflating them carries the danger of both under- and ...
the plaintiff's recovery. For example, if the victim of an assault used provocative words prior to the assault, the words may mitigate the plaintiff's damages. Most states limit mitigation of damages for provocative words to a possible reduction inPunitive Damages, as opposed toCompensatory ...
Comparing the above positions, while the UK and Hong Kong SAR have evolved a different test as compared to Singapore, these are not entirely distinct tests, and the fundamental need to ensure that the clause is "compensatory" (and not penal) still applies. In actual application, a...
The UAE is liable to pay the petitioner for all the natural and direct consequences of its wrongful act. Apart from actual loss and exemplary or punitive damages, he is entitled to get compensatory damages for ...
”Doty v. Elias, 733 F.2d 720, 725-26 (10th Cir. 1984);see also29 U.S.C. §§ 216(b),260. Liquidated damages awarded under FLSA are compensatory rather than punitive.Brooklyn Sav. Bank v. O’Neil, 324 U.S. 697, 707 (1945). In other words,[*5]they “‘are not a penalty...
Page 1. ARE THREEFOLD DAMAGES UNDER THE ANTI-TRUST ACT PENAL ORCOMPENSATORY? By LAWRENCn VOLD* I. THE NATURE OF THE ISSUE: CONFLICTINGAssmxFpTIoNs. Page 3. THREEFOLD DAMAGES 2. The Punishment and the Restoration Decreed.Vold, Lawrence