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Survivors to get compensation based on point system
The court maintained that the compensation to each victim will depend on a point system calculation, with points being given to victims in lieu of the damages incurred.
Each victim will then get an amount corresponding to their points accrued with respect to the total points accumulated by all claimants combined.
The highest compensation may exceed $500,000 if the damages are extreme.
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Judgment reaction: 39 agreed, eight disagreed with decision
The decision met with opposition as 39 claimants voted in favor of it, while eight didn t agree.
Attorneys of the claimants who didn t agree to the judgment complained about the choice offered between pursuing the claim outside the bankruptcy court and getting the full payout.
Donald Trump s Legal Reckoning Fails to Materialize in First Week After Leaving Office
On 1/27/21 at 11:40 AM EST
A post-presidency legal reckoning for Donald Trump has yet to materialize a week after he left the White House. The office protected Trump from most litigation and it was widely expected that lawsuits would fly soon after his departure.
However, Trump left for his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last Wednesday and so far no swathe of new charges has emerged.
Cases linked to Trump s former fixer Michael Cohen have been widely predicted. Cohen pleaded guilty to a range of crimes and admitted paying hush money to women over affairs with Trump. When Cohen was sentenced in 2018, Trump would have been immune from prosecution over alleged complicity in the payments.
It has to do with litigation pending in New York state.
Editor’s note: Although the National Rifle Association is headquartered in Northern Virginia, it is incorporated in New York. The gun group recently announced a new “strategic plan” to restructure under bankruptcy and reincorporate in Texas. The Conversation U.S. asked accounting scholars Brian Mittendorf and Sarah Webber to answer five key questions related to the NRA’s intentions.
1. What precipitated this announcement?
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the NRA in 2020 over alleged financial irregularities, such as improperly making millions of dollars in payments to benefit longtime leader Wayne LaPierre and other executives. Among the lawsuit’s allegations is a claim that the NRA tried to disguise trips to the Bahamas and other forms of lavish compensation as business expenses. James seeks to dissolve the organization. Though it disputes many of the charges, the organization has admitted to experien
A bankruptcy filing by the National Rifle Association isn’t stopping a New York judge from moving ahead with a fraud lawsuit by the state’s attorney general, who is seeking to