Remedies chronology, spring 2006. monique lillard.
Remedies chronology, Spring 2006. Monique Lillard.
Introduction
The role of remediesClassifying remediesSubstitutionary and specific remediesLegal and equitable remediesThe nature of remedies
Compensatory Damages
The basic principle: restoring plaintiff to his rightful position
Value as the measure of the rightful position
United States v. Fifty Acres of LandValue
Trinity Church v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Value unique to the owner
Decatur County Ag-Services v. YoungProperty that fluctuates in valueThe value of timeChoosing between competing measures of damages
Reliance and expectancy as measures of the rightful position
Neri v. Retail Marine Corp.
UCC § 2-708(2) and attempts to codify remediesExpectancy and relianceCompensating expectancies
Chatlos Systems, Inc. v. National Cash Register Corp.
Excessive expectancies
Smith v. BollesThe distinction between tort and contract
Consequential damages
Buck v. MorrowGeneral and special damagesThe vocabulary of damages
Meinrath v. Singer Co.
Consequential damages from failure to pay money
Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil Co.
An Eleven-Figure Verdict
Limits on the basic principle
Avoidable consequences, offsetting benefits, and collateral sources
S.J. Groves & Sons Co. v. Warner Co.
Avoidable consequencesOffsetting Benefits
Helfend v. Southern California Rapid Transit District
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Pruitt v. Allied Chemical Corp.
The economic harm rule
Evra Corp. v. Swiss Bank Corp.
Damages where value cannot be measured in dollars
Debus v. Grand Union StoresPain and sufferingWrongful death
Levka v. City of ChicagoDignitary tortsRemittiturThe right to recover for emotional distress
Carey v. PiphusValuing constitutional rightsDefamation damages
Etheridge v. Medical Center HospitalsSmith v. Department of InsuranceThe controversy over tort lawValuing pain and suffering and human life
Injunctive Relief
Preventive injunctions
Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. HarangRipeness, propensity, and the scope of preventive injunctions
Marshall v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
The scope of preventive injunctionsIndividual and class injunctions
United States v. W.T. Grant Co.
Mootness and propensity
Nicholson v. Connecticut Half-Way House, Inc.
Ripeness, uncertain consequences, and prophylactic injunctionsConstitutional and remedial ripenessCoercive relief at law
Reparative injunctions
Bell v. SouthwellForster v. BossLaycock:
Injunctions and the Irreparable Injury RuleWinston Research Corp. v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.
Reparative injunctions and the rightful position
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Bailey v. ProctorEquitable discretionProphylactic injunctions
Structural injunctions
Hutto v. FinneyInstitutional reform
Lewis v. CaseyRecommitment to the rightful position?The
Microsoft remedy
Choosing Remedies
Substitutionary or specific relief
Pardee v. Camden Lumber Co.
Maitland:
EquityEquity in the United StatesThe reasons for the irreparable injury rule
Brook v. James A. Cullimore & Co.
Replevin and injunctions
Continental Airlines, Inc. v. Intra Brokers, Inc.
The content of the irreparable injury ruleLaycock:
The Death of the Irreparable Injury RuleCampbell Soup Co. v. WentzSpecific performance of contractsEfficient breach of contractSpecific performance when cover is possible
Van Wagner Advertising Corp. v. S & M EnterprisesIrreparable injury and undue hardship
The economics of undue hardshipUndue hardship when plaintiff seeks money
Reasons of substantive or procedural policy
Willing v. MazzoconeMazzocone v. WillingInsolvent defendantsPrior restraintsThe right to jury trialAvoiding a “multiplicity of suits”
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v. National Football LeaguePreliminary relief
Lakeshore Hills, Inc. v. AdcoxPreserving the status quo
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Coyne-Delany Co. v. Capital Development BoardInjunction bondsTemporary restraining orders
Carroll v. President of Princess Anne
Preliminary procedureIrreparable injury, again
Contempt
International Union, United Mine Workers v. BagwellCoercive contempt
Anyanwu v. AnyanwuPerpetual coercion
Griffin v. County School BoardContempt of anticipated injunctionsContempt statutes
Walker v. City of BirminghamThe duty to obey erroneous injunctions
The requirement that injunctions be specificThe rule against incorporating other documentsDrafting your own injunction
Restitution
Disgorging profits
Olwell v. Nye & Nissen Co.
Recovering more than plaintiff lostQuasi-contract
Maier Brewing Co. v. Fleishmann Distilling Corp.
Snepp v. United StatesConstructive trusts and accounting for profitsIrreparable injuryRestitution of money not spend on safetyDisgorging the profits from breach of contract
Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp.
Apportioning profits
Hamil America, Inc. v. GFICalculating profits
Restitution and contract
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. v. JMR Electronics Corp.
Rescission
Farash v. Sykes Datatronics, Inc.
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The benefit requirementElection of remedies
Punitive Remedies
Common law and statutes
Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.
The standard for awarding punitive damagesMeasuring punitive damages
Other punitive remedies
Statutory recoveries by private litigantsCivil penalties payable to the government
The constitution
BMW, Inc. v. GoreThe constitutionality of punitive damages
State Farm v. Campbell
Litigation Expenses
City of Riverside v. RiveraThe American ruleExceptions to the American ruleOne-way fee shiftingThe amount of the judgment as a constraint on attorney's feesThe prevailing party requirementCalculating the lodestar
In re Synthroid Marketing LitigationThe common fund ruleContingency enhancementsCompeting approaches to calculating fee awardsCosts
Evans v. Jeff D.
Ethical problems in fee awardsLuban:
Taking Out the Adversary: The Assault on Progressive Public-Interest Lawyers
Replevin, Ejectment, and the Like
Welch v. KosaskyReplevin and monetary recoveriesEjectment and forcible detainerConstitutional restrictions on summary actions for possession of property
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Source: http://usefulinfo.org/lawschool/remedies/remsCHRON.pdf
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