legal cap
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of legal cap
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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For teaching summer courses that generally ran for up to two weeks, Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh each made salaries that approached the legal cap on certain outside income, roughly $30,000 in recent years.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2023
The Treasury Department has warned Congress that failure to raise the legal cap on federal debt by early June would risk a default in which Washington ceased to pay all its bills.
From Reuters • Feb. 14, 2023
The deal reached after several weeks of intense negotiations between attorneys and doctors groups would raise the legal cap on pain and suffering awards to $350,000 beginning Jan. 1.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022
The judgment included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages — an award so large it exceeded the state’s legal cap and was reduced by a judge.
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2016
Kirkwood took from his pocket several sheets of typewritten legal cap, and ran them over.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana
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