Anderson v. Islamic Republic of Iran

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• awarding $300 million in punitive damages against MOIS for the kidnapping and detention of Terry Anderson
• awarding $300 million in punitive damages against MOIS for the kidnapping and detention of Terry Anderson
• awarding $10,000,000 in damages for solatium to spouse of journalist held hostage and tortured for 2,454 days
• awarding $10 million to the wife of a hostage and torture victim
• awarding damages to spouse of kidnapping victim for loss of consortium and sola-tium
• “It is never a simple task to calibrate an award of punitive damages to the gravity of the offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).