A jury had already awarded the tribe $37 million in damages and Judge Neal McCurn of Federal District Court is now determining whether to increase the award to as much as $1 billion.
No doubt the mainstream nature of this year's Impac list will increase the award's profile in the US and Australia – and bolster it in Ireland – but at what cost to the more fragile corners of our literary culture?
In May, a Norwich Superior Court jury awarded $6.8 million in damages to the employees, and now the judge in the case has indicated that he might increase the award to as much as $13 million to account for interest, legal fees and punitive damages.
ScholarshipAssist is able to increase the award amount for students that have a scholarship or can increase the likelihood of a scholarship award for those on the border line of receiving one.
Building on the success of the False Claims Act at rooting out fraudulent Medicare billing practices and similar scams, Congress in 2006 increased the awards to whistle-blowers.
Mr. Obama's signature also doubled the total funding for Pell Grants and increased the award size to match the rising cost of higher education.
Among a raft of promises, Fifa said it would increase the amount awarded to each member association to $1.25m over four years from the current $400,000, while introducing more oversight of World Cup ticketing and local World Cup organising committees.
That same day, with breathtaking clumsiness, the government appealed against a pensions-tribunal decision to increase the compensation awarded to a pair of wounded soldiers.One of the soldiers was shot in the leg in Iraq, and is now serving in Afghanistan.
NIH still expects to increase the number of awards, but by a smaller amount.
