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Cal Court of Appeal to US Supremes: Here?s a Thumb In Your Eye

By Bruce Nye

    Today we discuss punitive damages.  But this post is not about your routine, garden variety, might I say even conservative $1 million or $5 million punitive damages award.  Rather, this is about mega-punitive damages, as in Buell-Wilson v. Ford Motor Company (March 10, 2008) ___ Cal.App.4th___ (Fourth App. Dist. D045154, D045579) (Buell-Wilson II).   Specifically, the question is, what does the Court of Appeal do when the US Supremes tells it to re-analyze a $5 read more

Full post as published by CalBizLit on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).