Sentence examples for courts award from inspiring English sources

Courts award damages based on the harm to the victim and the harm to society.

If it is impossible to calculate a plaintiff's expectation interest, courts award damages to protect his reliance interest, to restore him to his position before the contract was entered.

Without explaining what is a "matter of public concern," the plurality opinion proceeds to serve up a smorgasbord of reasons why the speech at issue here is not, ante, at 761-762, and on this basis affirms the Vermont courts' award of presumed and punitive damages.

If the doctor negligently chooses a more risky alternative and harm materializes, courts award damages equal to the harm suffered by the patient.

When courts award or deny monetary relief in these war labor cases, they decide whether civilians and soldiers perform "work" or "service".

Gender-bias studies of court systems across the USA, detailed in "Are "Good Enough" Parents Losing Custody to Abusive Ex-Partners?" by the Leadership Council, report that courts award father's custody of children 70-94 percent of the time when they request it, even when the mother has been primary-caregiver, and even in cases of documented domestic abuse.

Cerebral palsy victims now get £6m each – three times the amounts courts awarded a decade ago.

(After decades of squatting, the courts awarded him ownership of nearly 50 acres).

Some courts awarded huge sums to shareholders, prompting firms increasingly to settle out of court.Bosses were sometimes guilty of harming a firm.

In the early 1970s, the Israeli courts awarded two Jewish associations ownership of the compound based on land deeds that were a century old.

The courts awarded his client, a corporate engineer, $8 million in royalties for his invention of the blue diode light, the basis of white LED light bulbs.