Philip Morris v. Williams
N/AOUTCOME: Punitive damages upheld
Case involving a $79.5 million punitive damage award to a smoker who died in the Supreme Court of the United States
Robert S. Peck's Legal Cases (3)
Washington, DC
Appeals Lawyer at Washington, DC
Practice Areas: Appeals
Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami
N/AOUTCOME: Supreme Court upheld the City's standing
Issue concerned the City's standing to bring an action under the Fair Housing Act for discriminatory mortgage lending to residents in the Supreme Court of the United States. Peck represented the City.
Jinks v. Richland County
N/AOUTCOME: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal statute and reinstated a favorable verdict.
Peck represented the plaintiff before the U.S. Supreme Court in a civil rights action against Richland County over the death of her husband while in custody. The South Carolina Supreme Court held that ... a federal statute permitting the case to continue after the expiration of the state statute of limitations expired.
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