The ABA Journal discusses the latest jurisprudence on punitive damage awards:
“Tort reformers were at no loss for superlatives after the U.S. Supreme Court put some meat on the bones of a 1996 decision holding that enormous punitive damages may run afoul of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. . . . The justices in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, No. 01-1289 (April 7), may have been trying to give enough guidance to avoid becoming the court of last resort for an endless parade of punitive damages cases,” it says here.
“Tort reformers were at no loss for superlatives after the U.S. Supreme Court put some meat on the bones of a 1996 decision holding that enormous punitive damages may run afoul of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. . . . The justices in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, No. 01-1289 (April 7), may have been trying to give enough guidance to avoid becoming the court of last resort for an endless parade of punitive damages cases,” it says here.
The ABA Journal discusses the latest jurisprudence on punitive damage awards:
“Tort reformers were at no loss for superlatives after the U.S. Supreme Court put some meat on the bones of a 1996 decision holding that enormous punitive damages may run afoul of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. . . . The justices in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, No. 01-1289 (April 7), may have been trying to give enough guidance to avoid becoming the court of last resort for an endless parade of punitive damages cases,” it says here.
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