United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 442U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 |
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... jury found for respondent , awarding him $ 40,000 actual damages and $ 75,000 punitive damages , and the District Court accepted the jury's award . No. C 74-50B ( Wyo . , May 17 , 1976 ) . The Court of Appeals affirmed the District ...
... jury found for respondent , awarding him $ 40,000 actual damages and $ 75,000 punitive damages , and the District Court accepted the jury's award . No. C 74-50B ( Wyo . , May 17 , 1976 ) . The Court of Appeals affirmed the District ...
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... jury that it could award punitive damages if petitioners acted " maliciously , or wantonly , or oppressively . " App ... jury's punitive damages award . We , however , are unwilling to substitute our judgment for that of the jury ...
... jury that it could award punitive damages if petitioners acted " maliciously , or wantonly , or oppressively . " App ... jury's punitive damages award . We , however , are unwilling to substitute our judgment for that of the jury ...
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... jury's award of compensatory and punitive dam- ages against the union since " all or almost all " of the em- ployee's damages were attributable to the discharge . Ibid.13 This limitation on union liability thus reflects an attempt to ...
... jury's award of compensatory and punitive dam- ages against the union since " all or almost all " of the em- ployee's damages were attributable to the discharge . Ibid.13 This limitation on union liability thus reflects an attempt to ...
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... juries assess punitive damages in wholly unpredictable amounts bearing no necessary relation to the actual harm caused ... jury discretion to award punitive damages unnecessarily exacerbates the danger . . . . " Gertz v . Robert Welch ...
... juries assess punitive damages in wholly unpredictable amounts bearing no necessary relation to the actual harm caused ... jury discretion to award punitive damages unnecessarily exacerbates the danger . . . . " Gertz v . Robert Welch ...
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... jury ; this is the holding I would adopt . Inasmuch as the Court reaches to outlaw punitive damages in all unfair representation cases , I shall attempt to show why I think the Court errs and why I concur only in the result . A Because ...
... jury ; this is the holding I would adopt . Inasmuch as the Court reaches to outlaw punitive damages in all unfair representation cases , I shall attempt to show why I think the Court errs and why I concur only in the result . A Because ...
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Page 386 - VII provides that it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer — (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Page 108 - Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 32 - First, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the Government's interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail.
Page 349 - Act, it is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means, consistent with other essential considerations of national policy...
Page 621 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.
Page 240 - gist of the question of standing" is whether the party seeking relief has "alleged such a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy as to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult constitutional questions.
Page 228 - The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions wherein the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and arises under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.
Page 103 - ... no testimony or other information compelled under the order (or any information directly or indirectly derived from such testimony or other information) may be used against the witness in any criminal case, except a prosecution for perjury, giving a false statement, or otherwise failing to comply with the order.
Page 770 - greater" and which the "lesser" intrusion is itself a debatable question and the answer may depend on a variety of circumstances. For constitutional purposes, we see no difference between on the one hand seizing and holding a car before presenting the probable cause issue to a magistrate and on the other hand carrying out an immediate search without a warrant. Given probable cause to search, either course is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
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