{"id":1586,"date":"2024-07-02T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/4th-circuit-rules-350k-cap-in-charlottesville-mayhem-applies-per-plaintiff\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T21:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:32:21","slug":"4th-circuit-rules-350k-cap-in-charlottesville-mayhem-applies-per-plaintiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/4th-circuit-rules-350k-cap-in-charlottesville-mayhem-applies-per-plaintiff\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Circuit Rules $350K Cap in Charlottesville Mayhem Applies Per-Plaintiff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled the Virginia state law capping a jury\u2019s damages award at $350,000 in claims stemming from the violent Charlottesville \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally that took place in 2017 must apply on a per-plaintiff basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere we to hold otherwise, any plaintiffs seeking punitive damages against a defendant (or defendants) for a single occurrence would have 350,000 reasons not to join their claims,\u201d Chief Judge Albert Diaz wrote Monday in the Fourth Circuit\u2019s opinion. \u201cAnd had that been the law here, the district court likely would have faced eight trials in a loop of repeat operative facts and players.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled the Virginia state law capping a jury\u2019s damages award at $350,000 in claims stemming from the violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2254,991,2258,2255,2256,610,2257,2259,351],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-350k","tag-4th","tag-applies","tag-cap","tag-charlottesville","tag-circuit","tag-mayhem","tag-perplaintiff","tag-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}