Snyder v Phelps 2008 Overview LSData Case Brief Video Summary

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In this case, the Westboro Baptist Church and its members were sued by the father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq for intentionally inflicting emotional distress, invasion of privacy by intrusion upon seclusion, and conspiracy. The defendants argued that punitive damages awarded by the jury violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The court found that the defendants were liable for their tortious conduct, and the plaintiff was awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages and $8 million in punitive damages. The defendants' motions for judgment and relief from judgment were denied, but their motions for remittitur were granted in part, and the punitive damages award was reduced to $2.1 million. • Snyder v. Phelps (2008) • United States District Court for the District of Maryland • 533 F. Supp. 2d 567 • Learn more about this case at https://www.lsd.law/briefs/view/snyde... • --- • Law School Data has over 50,000 case briefs and a one-of-a-kind brief tool to instantly brief millions of US cases with just the name or case cite. • Check out all of our case briefs: https://www.lsd.law/briefs • Briefs come with built in LSDefine and DeepDive, which allow you to read as quickly or as deeply as you want. Each brief has a built in legal dictionary and recursive summaries that go into more and more detail, until you eventually hit the original case text. • Subscribe for new videos every week: https://www.youtube.com/@LSData?sub_c...

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