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Mar 07 1921 (FN)

Winton Vs. Amos

Court: US Supreme Court

winton v amos 255 u s 373 1921 u s supreme court winton v amos 255 u s 373 1921...

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Apr 20 1983 (FN)

Smith Vs. Wade

Court: US Supreme Court

..... act or omission of the defendant was willful and wanton with wantonly explicitly defined as indicating wicked intent pike v dilling ..... the court s claim that decisions predicating punitive damages on wantonness reflected a recklessness standard is unfounded the word had ..... allowable as punishment of a quasi criminal character for the wantonness and malice which inspired the wrong of the defendant .....

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Mar 04 1986 (FN)

Whitley Vs. Albers

Court: US Supreme Court

..... prisoner is subject to eighth amendment scrutiny however after incarceration only the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain constitutes cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the eighth amendment ingraham ..... provision for respondent may have been unfortunate but is hardly behavior from which a wanton willingness to inflict unjustified suffering on respondent can be inferred once it is .....

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Nov 13 1991 (FN)

Hudson Vs. Mcmillian

Court: US Supreme Court

..... whenever prison officials stand accused of using excessive physical force constituting the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain violative of the cruel and unusual punishments clause the core judicial ..... maliciously and sadistically to cause harm extending whitley s application of the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain standard to all allegations of excessive force works no innovation this .....

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Jul 02 1976 (FN)

Gregg Vs. Georgia

Court: US Supreme Court

..... task assigned to it under the georgia statutes death sentences imposed for discriminatory reasons or wantonly or freakishly for any given category of crime will be set aside petitioner has wholly ..... aggravating circumstance which authorizes imposition of the death penalty if the murder was outrageously or wantonly vile horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture depravity of mind or an aggravated .....

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May 19 1980 (FN)

Godfrey Vs. Georgia

Court: US Supreme Court

..... aggravating circumstance the first was that the evidence that the offense was outrageously or wantonly vile horrible or inhuman had to demonstrate torture depravity of mind or an aggravated ..... indicative of an unconstitutionally broad construction of the provision for the language outrageously or wantonly vile horrible or inhuman cannot objectively guide and channel jury discretion in the imposition .....

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Jan 03 1893 (FN)

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry. Co. Vs. Prentice

Court: US Supreme Court

..... award exemplary punitive or vindictive damages sometimes called smart money if the defendant has acted wantonly or oppressively or with such malice as implies a spirit of mischief or criminal indifference ..... is responsible under similar circumstances whenever the injury complained of has been inflicted maliciously or wantonly and with circumstances of page 147 u s 113 contumely or indignity the jury .....

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Jun 17 1991 (FN)

Wilson Vs. Seiter

Court: US Supreme Court

..... subjected to cruel and unusual punishment we stated after incarceration only the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain constitutes cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the eighth amendment to ..... there is no evidence that double celling under these circumstances either inflicts unnecessary or wanton pain or is grossly disproportionate to the severity of crimes warranting imprisonment id at .....

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Jan 05 2022 (SC)

State Of Up Through Secretary (excise) Vs. M/s Mcdowell And Company Li ...

Court: Supreme Court of India

..... exemplary damages also termed reckless negligence wanton negligence willful negligence willful and wanton negligence willful and wanton misconduct hazardous negligence magna neglegentia inadvertent ..... exemplary damages also termed reckless negligence wanton negligence willful negligence willful and wanton negligence willful and wanton misconduct hazardous negligence magna neglegentia inadvertent .....

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1990

Zinermon Vs. Burch

Court: US Supreme Court

..... of the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution defendants acted with willful wanton and reckless disregard of and indifference to plaintiff s constitutionally guaranteed right to ..... merely one more set of procedural protections that state employees could willfully recklessly and wantonly subvert indeed burch alleges that presented with the clearest evidence of his incompetence .....

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