Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Remedies : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Remedies |
| Title: | Sole v. Wyner |
| Date: | 06/04/07 |
| Case Number: | 06–531 |
| Summary: | In the context of attorney's fee awards in private actions brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and other specified measures designed to secure civil rights, prevailing party status does not attend achievement of a preliminary injunction that is reversed, dissolved, or otherwise undone by the final decision in the same case. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Consumer Products, Injury And Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies |
| Title: | Philip Morris USA v. Williams |
| Date: | 02/20/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1256 |
| Summary: | A punitive damages award, based in part on a jury's desire to punish a defendant for harming nonparties, amounts to a taking of property from the defendant without due process. A judgment rejecting a tobacco company's challenges to a punitive damages award against it in a negligence and deceit case is vacated where the Oregon Supreme Court applied the wrong constitutional standard when considering the tobacco company's appeal. |