Punitive damages are supposed to be rare and for malicious cases, and they generally don't exceed compensatory damages. I can't see how it's justifiable that compensatory damages (supposed to be a calculation of damages incurred as a result of the alleged tort) is 1/1,000,000 of punitive damages. $1 compensatory damages is an admission the plaintiff suffered virtually no damage. What a complete farce.
People slave away at low-salary jobs every year, and their effort is supposed to be worth less than 1/1000th of the value of saying someone lied about a rape for which there's no evidence or prior conviction...
Ultimate fuck this gay Earth moment.
As a soccer fan, I saw how this story unfolded when it broke several months ago.
Rubiales kissed Hermosa, very obviously and in full view of cameras, immediately following the Spanish women's World Cup win. It's clearly a deliberate kiss, but it's close-mouthed and very quick. If you watch the footage you'll see she doesn't have a negative reaction and is smiling during and after as she walks away. Of course, she may have been downplaying her true feelings in the moment, but she was also asked about the kiss shortly after (as internet feminists had started raging over it) and she said she didn't care and that it was done in a moment of excitement.
I will say that if a man kissed my girlfriend like that, I would not be happy. However, Hermosa initially claimed to not mind. Rubiales maintained that he'd done nothing wrong and Hermosa seemed to support that, but after the pressure continued to mount on him to resign (with players threatening to leave the national team and sponsors threatening to pull money), she changed her story. A bajillion famous Spanish players, non-Spaniards who play in La Liga, and influential football pundits came out of the woodwork to decry the kiss as sexual assault and soak up that sweet sweet leftist signaling credit. Rubiales and the football association he worked for relented after a few weeks and he resigned.
In my opinion, the whole thing was -- and continues to be -- a completely overblown exercise in how to morally dominate a public man.
Hermosa has flip-flopped all over the place on how she's perceived his actions, but I think with all the attention and pressure she was ultimately convinced to play the victim. At this point, she's undoubtedly in favour of whatever negativity Rubiales faces as it directly benefits her.
Med schools don't want more students, they want to gate-keep their profession so they can make boatloads of cash from it. When I was looking at med schools in Canada a few years ago, the head of Queen's University's medical school was making $600k a year as nothing more than a politician-administrator. They get like 80 students a year...