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Supreme Court Punishes Jury's Punitive Damage Award

By sskrplaw on June 27, 2008 4:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Here is the Supreme Court’s Opinion in Exxon v. Baker. The Court held that a punitive damage award three times the amount of compensatory damages was excessive, even to punish one of the world’s largest corporations for one of the worst and most egregious environmental disasters in history.

Alan Milstein

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