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redress
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Compensation for injuries sustained; recovery or restitution for harm or injury; damages or equitable relief. Access to the courts to gain Reparation for a wrong.


redress verb adjust, aid, allay, alleviate, appease, atone, change, compensare, compensate, correct, cure, ease, expiate, fix, heal, help, improve, make amends, make good, make reparation, make up for, mend, pacify, palliate, propitiate, put right, readjust, rectify, relieve, remedy, repair, restituere, restore, right, satisfy, set right
Associated concepts: legal redress
See also: adjust, award, collection, compensate, contribution, cure, disbursement, equity, fix, habeas corpus, help, indemnification, justice, payment, recompense, recourse, recovery, rectify, reform, reimburse, reimbursement, remedy, remunerate, renew, repair, reparation, repent, requital, resolve, restitution, restore, return, satisfaction, trover

REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.



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3) For a party to have standing, three elements must be satisfied: (1) the party must have suffered an injury in fact, (2) the injury must be fairly traceable to the actions of the defendant, and (3) the injury must be redressable by a favorable decision.
The Ninth Circuit left the door open in Lombera-Camorlinga: "We do not decide whether a violation of Article 36 may be redressable by more common judicial remedies such as damages or equitable relief.
Although the discrimination involved in Burke preceded the effective date of the amended CRA, the Court noted that "the amended act signals a marked change in its conception of the injury redressable by Title VII.
 
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