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The trial judge reduced the punitive damages to three times the amount of the compensatory damages, totalling $640,000. The parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was decided. [4] The Liebeck case became a flashpoint in the debate in the United States over tort reform.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the due process clause usually limits punitive damage awards to less than ten times the size of the compensatory damages awarded and that punitive damage awards of four times the compensatory damage award is "close to the line of constitutional impropriety".
The jury awarded $127.8 million in damages; $125 million in punitive damages, and $2,841,000 in compensatory damages to Grimshaw and $665,000 in compensatory damages to the Gray family. The jury award was the largest ever in US product liability and personal injury cases.
A day after concluding that Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim $4.1 million in compensatory damages, a jury in Austin, Texas, on Friday ordered Jones to pay an ...
The six-person jury ruled Young was awarded $4 million in lost earnings, $1 million in personal damages such as pain and suffering and said that punitive damages are warranted against CNN.
The punitive damages were later significantly reduced by a judge on appeal, though this fact is not as widely known as the jury's initial decision. Martin v. Herzog: statutory violations and duty of care. Palsgraf v. Long Island Rail Road Co.: Landmark case for discussion of proximate cause and its relationship with duty. Court of Appeals of ...
Los Angeles County prosecutors Nancy Theberge and Brock Lunsford are seeking $5.25 million each in damages, according to filings obtained by Fox News Digital. ... The infamous case dates back to ...
Gertz won the retrial at District Court, which awarded him $400,000 (including $300,000 in punitive damages). The verdict was sustained on appeal, [9] and the case finally ended when the Supreme Court denied the John Birch Society certiorari in 1983. [10]