Two Crazy Defamation Trials: How High Can Punitive Damages Verdicts Go?
Date: Wednesday, February 21 at 1pm ET / 10am PT
A jury awarded $5M in compensatory damages & $20M in punitives against The Oklahoman. In the Michael Mann libel case, a jury awarded $1 in compensatory damages against each of two writers, then awarded $1M in punitives to plaintiff & against one of the writers. Are punitives more than one million times compensatories defensible?
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