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Form and Politics in Punitive Damage

, 1999
Kamal Bamadhaj was a 20-year-old New Zealander shot dead by the Indonesian military in 1991. His mother's quest for justice is the subject of Annie Goldson's documentary film, Punitive Damage (1999).
Pitts, V.
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Rational Legal Decision-Making, Value Judgment and Efficient Precaution in Tort law [PDF]

By reinterpreting Savage axioms as axioms of the social rationality over resource allocations, we derive a social welfare function encompassing individual social values and a social attitude towards distributional inequality.
MINGLI ZHENG, SAJID ANWAR
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Urban Cat Management in Australia—Evidence-Based Strategies for Success

Animals
Urban free-roaming cats present challenges like noise, urination, defecation, property damage, public health risks, and wildlife predation. Traditional enforcement methods, such as containment laws and impounding, are ineffective, especially in low ...
Jennifer Cotterell, Jacquie Rand, Rebekah Scotney   +2 more
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Psihološka Obzorja
In crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic states, organizations, and individuals try to cope with a variety of challenges. The pandemic caused fear and some individuals felt a need for solidarity and conformity. A crisis such as the pandemic was likely to
Kerstin Wüstner
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Procedural Due Process and Predictable Punitive Damage Awards

, 2012
In Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, the Supreme Court’s most recent opinion on punitive damage awards, the Court declared that the real problem with punitive damage awards is their “stark unpredictability.” The Court abandoned all hope that common law jury ...
Lens, Jill Wieber
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Pushing for the Injury: Tort Law\u27s Influence in Defining the Constitutional Limitations on Punitive Damage Awards

, 2011
The limitations on a punitive damage award depend on the conception of punitive damages. Is it a private law remedy, limited to resolving the dispute between the parties?
Lens, Jill Wieber
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Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions [PDF]

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We link original longitudinal micro-level data on houses demolished by the Israeli Defense Forces with data on the universe of suicide ...
Esteban Klor, Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi   +2 more
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Invading the Realm of the Dead: Exploring the (Im)propriety of Punitive Damage Awards Against Estates

, 2014
Punitive damages are traditionally understood, at least in part, as damages designed to punish. It should therefore come as no surprise that, in the majority of states that have decided the issue, courts have chosen not to allow punitive damage awards ...
Iversen, Emily Himes
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The Effects Of Punitive Damage Limitations And Split-Recovery Statutes On Mock Jurors\u27 Damage Awards

, 2006
This study investigated the effects of two popular tort reform measures---punitive damage caps, and laws that remit punitive awards to the state---on mock jurors\u27 damage awards.
Apostal, Kathryn Jean
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Uncapping Compensation in the Gore Punitive Damage Analysis

, 2015
BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore rests, in part, on the “understandable relationship” between a civil jury’s award of compensatory and punitive damages.
Sanders, Shaakirrah R.
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