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In many states, including California and Texas, punitive damages are determined based on statute; elsewhere, they may be determined solely based on case law. Many state statutes are the result of insurance industry lobbying to impose "caps" on punitive damages; however, several state courts have struck down these statutory caps as ...
Many American jurisdictions with non-economic damage caps have defined non-economic damages by statute. While opponents of caps on damages in America argue that limiting total damages that jurors may award violate the right to a trial by jury, [21] tort law is a question of state law and only state constitutions can mandate or define the scope ...
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the due process clause usually limits punitive damage awards to less than ten times the size of the compensatory damages awarded and that punitive damage awards of four times the compensatory damage award is "close to the line of constitutional impropriety".
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who underwent a failed sterilization procedure is not entitled to damages for the birth of a healthy child. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a ...
The Texas Statutes or Texas Codes are the collection of the Texas Legislature's statutes: the Revised Civil Statutes, Penal Code, and the Code of Criminal Procedure ...
Many families that were displaced or lost their homes in the Smokehouse Creek Fire are starting all over from scratch due to lack of insurance.
The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law , with the exception of a few penal statutes. [ 3 ] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.
Musk's Twitter sues four Texas entities for data scraping, seeks damages. July 13, 2023 at 3:55 AM ... Texas, no. DC-23-09157. (Reporting by Shubham Kalia and Juby Babu in Bengaluru; Editing by ...