In the United States, celebrities or public figures can sue for libel if their private lives are revealed in gossip columns and they believe that their reputation has been defamed that is, exposed to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or pecuniary loss.
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In 1848, he wrote to his fellow Convention delegate Judge Cutler, and noted that since his captivity among the Indians, " my life has been one of turmoil ", and that he had met with pecuniary losses, but is thankful to God who sustained him.
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Steve Pounian, a lawyer for the families, said the ruling meant families would not be limited to damage awards of as little as $ 100, 000 to $ 200, 000 for " pecuniary losses " or those calculated from an estimate of future earnings and other factors.
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The dissent argues that " actual damages " for the Privacy Act does only allow for pecuniary loss alone, and pointed out that the Privacy Act was expressly designed to prevent agency conduct which results in intangible harms to the individual as a result of privacy violations.
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Section 762 of DOHSA provides that the recovery in a suit under s761 " shall be a fair and just compensation for the pecuniary loss sustained by the persons for whose benefit the suit is brought . " 46 U . S . C . App . s762.
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The relation between the coercion exerted on respondent [ Jackson ] and her possible pecuniary loss thereby is so close to the purpose of the restrictive covenant, to violate the constitutional rights of those discriminated against, that respondent is the only effective adversary of the unworthy covenant in its last stand.
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He said the favorable ruling meant families would not be limited to recoveries of as little as $ 100, 000 to $ 200, 000, as families of other crash victims have been when losses are limited to " pecuniary losses " or those calculated from an estimate of future earnings and other factors.
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One of the leading legal decisions of the NIRC was " Norton Tool Co Ltd v Tewson " [ 1972 ] ICR, in which Donaldson J ruled that damages for wrongful dismissal only extended to financial loss, and that compensation was not available for non-pecuniary losses, such as injury to pride or feelings.
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Jewish leaders were unable to curtail their efforts, and when in Montreal a Jewish merchant sued an anti-Semitic publication for personal hurt and pecuniary loss through the libel of Jews as a people the judge ruled that so long as a Jew was not singled out by name then no law was broken.
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Aware of the hostile feeling against him, he tendered his resignation to Sir Charles Hotham, by whom it was accepted on the ground that the Queen's government of the colony was endangered, and with the implied pledge that compensation should be given Mr . Foster for the pecuniary loss which he would sustain by his retirement from the public service.
