🏛️ Dossier Parameters & Claims
Art. 1240 C. civ.
Plaintiff
Kim Kardashian
Jurisdiction
Paris Judicial Court
Incident Date
October 2016 (Armed Robbery)
Legal Basis
Moral Prejudice (Préjudice Moral)
€1.00
€1 (Symbolic)
€50,000 (Substantial)
€100,000 (Punitive/Pecuniary)
1.1500 USD
0.95 (EUR parity)
1.15 (Judgment Snapshot)
1.35 (Historical Peak)
📖 French Legal Doctrine: Le Franc Symbolique
Under French civil liability law (Article 1240, formerly Article 1382 of the Civil Code), a plaintiff seeking dommages-intérêts symboliques requests one single euro. This formalizes judicial recognition of wrongful harm and civil guilt without seeking commercial enrichment or punitive windfall.
Adjudicated Award Verdict
Symbolic Damages (Dommages-intérêts symboliques)
Awarded EUR
€1.00
Requested total
Converted USD
$1.15
@ 1.15 USD/EUR
Symbolic Ratio
100.0%
Moral vindication index
Litigation Nature
Partie Civile
Criminal tribunal adjunct
Remedy Characterization: Moral Vindication vs Material Enrichment
Pure Symbolic (Principle)
Moral / Guilt Establishing (100%)
Pecuniary Restitution (0%)
Comparative Precedent Matrix: Symbolic Compensation in Europe Civil & Tort Benchmark
| Litigant / Matter | Jurisdiction | Amount | Core Legal Objective |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Kardashian (Robbery civil party) | Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris | €1.00 | Moral injury validation; separate insurance handled €9M loss |
| Taylor Swift v. David Mueller (2017) | U.S. Federal Court (Denver) | $1.00 | Nominal battery damages demonstrating sexual assault zero-tolerance |
| Greenpeace v. Nuclear Operator | Cour d'Appel de Paris | €1.00 | Ecological prejudice (Préjudice écologique) recognition |
| Prince Harry v. Mirror Group | UK High Court of Justice | £140,600 | Substantial privacy tort compensation (non-symbolic award) |
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