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unusual facts about Damages


Dougherty v. Stepp

He also argued that every trespass involves some damage to the property, even if it is only the treading down and bruising of the herbage and shrubbery.


2003 Santa Fe flood

According to a UN assessment requested by the provincial governor Carlos Reutemann, the total damages were about $1,000 million, and implied the loss of about 12% of Santa Fe's GDP.

A Dog Called Ego

In Summer they recorded their debut album "Living Seriously Damages Health" in their own studio in Hamburg and it was described as the best alternative/Post Rock album of the last years by German Rock Hard Magazine.

Alexandra Socha

Her television work includes the character Mia in the Showtime series The Big C, single appearances on White Collar, A Gifted Man, Made in Jersey, and a recurring role on the FX series, Damages.

Bill Anschell

His musical compositions have been heard on numerous network and cable programs, including NBC's The West Wing, FX's Damages, HBO's The Wire, CBS'sThe Defenders, NCIS: LA, The Mindy Projects and the soundtrack of the PBS movie Old Settler.

Charitable immunity

In the House of Lords, Lord Cottenham, in dictum, pronounced that an award of damages out of a trust fund "would not be to apply it to those objects which the author of the fund had in view, but would be to divert it to a completely different purpose".

Charles Jundt

In 1932, Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, the estranged wife of cartoonist Bud Fisher, was awarded $5,000 damages after Jundt burned Fisher's ear while styling her hair.

City of Camberwell

The council's pathway to amalgamation was a little different to most; following a redevelopment deal for land behind the Burke Road shops, which was rejected by most residents, the council reneged on the deal and had damages awarded against it.

Cyclone Nisha

2008's Cyclonic Storm Nisha – Made landfall in Tamil Nadu, India, killed at least 204 people, and did at least $800 million (2008 USD) in damages.

Diacetyl

In 2012, Wayne Watson, a regular microwavable popcorn consumer for years, was awarded $7.27 million in damages from a federal jury in Denver, which decided his lung disease was caused by the chemicals in microwave popcorn and that the popcorn's manufacturer, Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, and the grocery store that sold it should have warned him of its dangers.

DMG Media

On 27 April 2007, Associated Newspapers was ordered to pay undisclosed damages to Hugh Grant.

Edgar Steele

In her petition, she asked for numerous damages, including child support payments of $1,400 per month, two of the family's vehicles, and their horse ranch in Sagle, Idaho.

Elizabethan collar

In Phineas and Ferb, Perry the Platypus is forced to wear one after incurring damages from a fight with Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

Filártiga v. Peña-Irala

When Peña was taken to the Brooklyn Navy Yard pending deportation, Filártiga lodged a civil complaint in U.S. courts, brought forth by the Center for Constitutional Rights, for Joelito's wrongful death by torture, asking for damages in the amount of $10 million.

Fusakichi Omori

Omori continued his observations south into the Eel River Valley, stopped in Ferndale, California and noted a giant landslide south of Centerville at False Cape which covered the former coast road and created a new promontory into the Pacific Ocean as well as damages to local property and buildings.

Gemma D'Arcy

Her life was the subject of an ITV docu-drama Fighting for Gemma in 1993, detailing her family's attempts to bring a criminal case against BNFL for damages relating to her illness.

George A. Frederick

On July 17, 1875 the individual members of the Board of Public Works—Governor James Black Groome, Treasurer Barnes Compton, and Comptroller Levin Woolford—filed suits of libel against Charles C. and Albert K. Fulton, proprietors of the Baltimore American, claiming $20,000 each in damages.

He's So Fine

The suit to determine damages was scheduled for November 1976 but delayed until February 1981, by which time Allen Klein, Harrison's onetime manager who had been his legal adviser in the first phase of the suit, had become the plaintiff by virtue of purchasing Bright Tunes.

Jean-Edern Hallier

-- aux enchères --> in order to pay damages to Bernard Tapie who had successfully charged him with defamation.

Jeffrey Beall

In 2013, it was reported that OMICS Publishing Group, which had been included on Beall's list of predatory open access publishers, had issued a warning to Beall stating that they intended to sue him, and were seeking $1 billion in damages.

JNR dismissal lawsuit

On December 5, 2006, at the Tokyo District Court, more than 500 Kokuro members, the union itself, and relatives of workers who died since the privatization planned to launch a 30 million yen damages lawsuit over the refusal to rehire the workers, making a total of 540 plaintiffs suing the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.

Legal drama

In reality, more often than not, most lawsuits are resolved through a settlement before ever going to court; shows like Damages, Suits, and occasionally The Good Wife, do attempt to portray this.

Leonard Weinberg

In the 1930s he filed one of the earliest damages lawsuits against a labor union; he was a delegate to the 1932 Democratic Convention held in Chicago in support of Governor Albert Ritchie of Maryland nomination.

Mark Evans Austad

Austad sued Private Eye for libel and they settled for a "substantial sum", for damages and legal expenses, and printed an apology stating their "article constituted a most serious and damaging libel upon Ambassador Austad." Austad dismissed the controversy, saying Norway's largest newspaper, Aftenposten, praised him as the best U.S. ambassador they had ever had.

Matthew Penn

Penn has directed and/or produced over one hundred and fifty prime time TV dramas Some of his credits as a television director include NYPD Blue, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Brooklyn South, The Sopranos, House, Damages, The Closer, and Royal Pains.

Matty Holmes

In 2004, Holmes was awarded £250,000 by the English High court for damages resulting from the tackle by Kevin Muscat.

Mudslide

On December 14, 1999 in Vargas, Venezuela, a mudslide known as The Vargas tragedy, which significantly altered more than 60 kilometers (37 mi) of its coastline, was triggered due to heavy rainfall and caused estimated damages of USD $1.79 to $3.5 billion, a death toll considered to be between 10,000 and 30,000, 85,000 people evacuated and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Okolehao

In Operation Pacific, a 1951 John Wayne movie, when Wayne's submarine crew get arrested for crashing and busting up a luau with the local Hawaiians asking for damages beyond Wayne's budget, he finds out the locals had illegal "okoolihau" which caused his men to get drunk.

Olympic Airways Flight 417

On initial appeal, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously affirmed the finding of the District Court that Leptourgou's actions not only met the definition of “accident” under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention, but also rose to the level of being “wilful misconduct” under Article 25; by passing that threshold, it removed a $75,000 cap on damages.

Post-dated cheque

In Brazil, the drawer may seek damages in Justice if their cheque is cashed in before its due date, according to the jurisprudential orientation of the Superior Court of Justice, as per Summary No. 370 of such court.

Presumptive and confirmatory tests

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service was ordered to pay A$5,000 as damages to the Filipino.

Quini

It was subsequently speculated that Quini developed Stockholm syndrome, since he decided not to press charges against his kidnappers and never claimed his personal damages award of 5 million pesetas.

René Dumont

However, he was one of the first to denounce damages from the Green Revolution ("Révolution Verte") and to fight agricultural productivism.

Richard Jewell

On July 23, 1997, Jewell sued The New York Post for $15 million in damages and settled with the newspaper for an undisclosed amount.

Sam Keller

On May 6, 2009, Keller filed a lawsuit against EA Sports and the NCAA in an attempt to recover damages for the likenesses of college athletes being used in the NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball series.

Shane Mortimer

In 2012, Mortimer filed a claim for $6 million worth of damages for alleged racism after Professor Don Aitkin, former National Capital Authority chairman, wrote that Mortimer looked "about as Aboriginal as I do".

SS Marine Sulphur Queen

The loss of the ship was subject of a lawsuit filed within weeks of the sinking by relatives of the crew members seeking 2.5 million dollars in damages under two specific federal acts (the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688; and the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C. § 761), based upon maritime laws regarding the unseaworthiness of a vessel.

SS Storstad

The Canadian Pacific Railway, which owned the Empress of Ireland, filed a $2,000,000 lawsuit for damages against the owners of the Storstad.

Studies in Modern Movement

Troy damages the apartment's electrical outlet, and Pierce (Chevy Chase) offers to help her fix it before her landlord comes.

Susman Godfrey

After the subsequent re-trial, the trial court awarded Masimo, Susman Godfrey’s client, a final judgment of $43.5 million in damages in June 2007, as well as attorneys' fees.

The Art of Cross-Examination

The cross-examination of Ada and Phoebe Brush by George W. Whiteside - in their suit against two prominent Huntington, Long Island physicians, to recover damages for their ten-year incarceration in Kings Park State Hospital as insane patients.

There's Only One Way to Try a Case

"There's Only One Way to Try a Case" is the first episode of the fourth season of the DirecTV legal drama series Damages and the show's fortieth episode overall.

Tropical Storm Debra

1978's Tropical Storm Debra, a short-lived tropical storm that caused minimal damages in Louisiana

West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District

Named after the first fallen WWII soldier from the City of West Orange, it has been used for graduations, city meetings, board meetings, and performances (including one mid-1970s concert by celebrities Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely), until 2003, when West Orange-Cove declared it unusable due to damages from age.

William Acker

In 2008, Acker held the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act unconstitutional for imposing disproportionate punitive damages on defendants who cause no harm.


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