• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    It’s not as bad as it seems.

    They explicitly did not overthrow the ruling, just the civil damages for being too high.

    The thing with civil cases is that you generally have to demonstrate damages. Did the state actually incur $500 million dollars in damages? The oddest thing is the Court bringing up the “cruel and unusual punishment” nonsense. That usually comes into play in criminal law.

    This is going to be appealed again, and we’ll probably end up with a lower number.

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      17 hours ago

      It’ll be appealed again and the only thing that stopped the entire case from being thrown out were a few Democrat loyalists in the NY Supreme Court that refused to be impartial and see the entire case for the sham that it was.

      There was no damage, no victim, no market impact, it was business as usual, but Tish, in her corrupt ways, tried to make a case out of nothing, and Engoron played along.

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        17 hours ago

        I suppose if people lie to the bank about their finances in order to secure a mortgage then there’s no problem either?