Punitive damages can't be the reason either: federal law prevents most of the claimants from getting punitive damages.
But one lawyer, Daniel E. Becnel Jr., who has been moving his clients through the fund's claims process, argued that "nobody ever gets punitive damages here on virtually anything".
Should the two members of the Native American Church in the case that prompted the first RFRA have gotten punitive damages from the private addiction center that fired them for using peyote in religious rituals?
"We need to get the punitive measures taken off the table".
Afterward, you get into punitive damage," said Anthony H. Cordesman, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
"The whole thing got so punitive," she said in an interview.
Two friends and I took a regular bus back to school, where we got a punitive lecture about bailing on community participation.
Working with tenants, the NYCHA came up with an enforcement policy that gets increasingly punitive with each violation: from an informal chat with management, to documented warnings, to beginning eviction proceedings. .
They also want to require the jobless to be in G.E.D. programs and to undergo drug testing to get benefits, two punitive measures designed to stigmatize the desperate.
The House passed a related bill this month that would allow women to get compensatory and punitive damages for violations of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which generally requires equal pay for equal work.
