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California punitive damages
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Thoughts on recent developments affecting California punitive damages litigation, from the appellate attorneys at Horvitz & Levy LLP.
- Added on: Jan 22nd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: CCC
- Listed in: Law & Legal
- Tags: California law appeals punitive damages appellate
Recent Posts
"The Need for Enforcement of U.S. Punitive Damages by the European Union"
The Minnesota Journal of International Law has an article by Jessica J. Berch in its Winter 2010 edition entitled "The Need for Enforcement of U.S. Punitive Damages by the European Union." For those of you with access to Westlaw or Lexis, the citati...
North Carolina Supreme Court Applies "Clear and Convincing" Standard to Appellate Review of Punitive Damages
The North Carolina Supreme Court's decision last week in Scarborough v. Dillard's addresses an issue that has divided California appellate courts for quite some time.The issue is whether the "clear and convincing evidence" standard has any role in ap...
Paper Contains a Wealth of Statistics on Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
Alison F. Del Rossi and W. Kip Viscusi have posted a paper on SSRN entitled "The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards." The authors note that since the State Farm decision in 2004, the number of blockbuster decisions has tapered ...
Personalized Workout of La Jolla v. Ravet: Unpublished Opinion from San Diego Conflicts with Earlier Unpublished Opinion from San Diego
The jury in this malicious prosecution case awarded $74,000 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, for a ratio of 67.5 to one. Not surprisingly, the trial court reduced the punitive damages award (to $296,000, for a ratio of four...
Le Plastrier v. Phillips: No Punitive Damages Against Lawyer Who Improperly Recorded Lis Pendens and Wrote Poem About It
The California Court of Appeal (Fourth District, Division Three) issued this unpublished opinion last week, reversing a $255,000 punitive damages award against an attorney who was found liable for slander of title based on his improper filing of a li...
Roby v. McKesson: Cal. Supreme Court Embraces 1:1 Ratio
Now that I've had a chance to review this morning's opinion from the California Supreme Court, here's a more detailed summary of the court's ruling. The primary significance of the case, for purposes of this blog, is that the California Supreme Court...
