Civil Remedies
This is FindLaw’s collection of Civil Remedies articles, part of the Litigation and Disputes section of the Corporate Counsel Center. A civil remedy refers to the remedy that a party has to pay to the victim of a wrong he commits. A civil remedy is generally separate form a criminal remedy, although in certain situations the civil and criminal remedy may be related. Civil remedies require the cooperation of the victim and are voluntary. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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Civil Remedies Articles
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S & P Index Too Speculative To Prove Lost Profits Against Investment Advisor
An investor suing his investment advisor for profits he allegedly lost as a result of bad investment advice cannot use the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to calculate those damages, according to a recent decision from the United States District Court ...
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Rights of Patent Owners Enhanced
You may hold a patent but have decided not to make, use or sell the patented device. In a recent case, the United States Court of Appeals ruled that such patent owners may be entitled to lost profit damages for infringement if lost sales for a ...
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Remote Prior Owner of Property Can Face Exposure to Liability for Failure to Disclose
It is elementary law that owners/sellers of real property are required to disclose to buyers all facts about the property within their knowledge which could materially affect its value and desirability. Buyers who discover material defects in the ...
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Recent Amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act Make It Easier for Employers to Investigate Employee Misconduct
This article was published in The Missouri Bar's Corporate Law Update - A Collection of Timely Articles for Law Day 2004. On December 4, 2000, President Bush signed into law the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, a law which amends the Fair ...
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Qualified Transportation Proposed Regulations
In 1992, the IRS first allowed employers to provide certain transportation fringe benefits to its employees on a pre-tax basis under Section 132(f) of the Internal Revenue Code ("Code"). This permits employers to offer certain commuting-related ...
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Punitive Damages in Civil Rights Actions
In Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n, 119 S. Ct. 2118 (1999), the Supreme Court defined the standards for punitive damages under the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which amended the law to allow for punitive damage awards in intentional discrimination ...
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Punitive Damage Awards Scrutinized after Supreme Court Decision
In May 1996, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 116 S.Ct.1589 (1996), "to illuminate 'the character of the standard that will identify constitutionally excessive awards' of punitive damages ...
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Pssst: Wanna lower your credit card rate?
Reprinted from the Staten Island Advance, Monday, 10/11/1999 Page A I Instead of playing "musical cards" trying to chase the latest low interest rate offer to arrive in your mailbox, try asking your current credit card company to reduce the rate you ...
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Prosecution Laches: Lemelson Bar Code and Machine Vision Patents Held Unenforceable
This article was originally published in the Spring 2004 edition (Vol. 4, No. 1) of Thelen Reid's Intellectual Property and Trade Regulation Journal. On January 23, 2004, Judge Philip M. Pro of the United States District Court for the District of ...
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Proposed Rules For Mutual Fund Reports to Shareholders and Quarterly Portfolio Disclosure
In December 2002, the SEC proposed changes in the disclosures that mutual funds make in their reports to shareholders. The proposals, if adopted, would: Require mutual funds to include management's discussion of fund performance in their annual ...
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