Zara v. Devry Education Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that courts are permitted “in subsequent related cases to rely upon the evidence presented in earlier litigation” (quoting Rimkus, 750 F. Supp. at 163)
• finding that a street assassination of a high-ranking official was an act of “extreme depravity” and “among the most heinous the Court can fathom,” and awarding $300 million in punitive damages
• finding that a street assassination of a high-ranking official was an act of “extreme depravity” and “among the most heinous the Court can fathom,” and awarding $300 million in punitive damages
• explaining that Section 1605A(d) “contains two causation elements: (1) the property loss must come ‘by reason of’ the [terrorist acts], and (2) the property loss must be a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ result of the [terrorist acts]”
• awarding $300 million in punitive damages to one plaintiff whose compensatory damages totaled $7.5 million
• awarding $300 million in punitive damages and collecting FSIA cases where similar punitive damages amounts were awarded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).