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.
In response to the proposed FLSA revisions, NIH will increase the awards for postdoctoral NRSA recipients to levels above the threshold.
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?
But where the infringement is committed "willfully," the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages up to a maximum of $50,000.00 per act of infringement.
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.
In any case in which the injured party sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that a person has violated section 1201 or 1202 within 3 years after a final judgment was entered against the person for another such violation, the court may increase the award of damages up to triple the amount that would otherwise be awarded, as the court considers just.
In a case where the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that infringement was committed willfully, the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.
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.
