{"id":24079,"date":"2024-02-13T20:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T20:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medialaw.org\/?post_type=post_event&p=24079"},"modified":"2024-02-21T20:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:51:28","slug":"two-crazy-defamation-trials-how-high-can-punitive-damages-verdicts-go","status":"publish","type":"post_event","link":"https:\/\/medialaw.org\/event\/two-crazy-defamation-trials-how-high-can-punitive-damages-verdicts-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Crazy Defamation Trials: How High Can Punitive Damages Verdicts Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"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? ","protected":false},"featured_media":24107,"template":"","event-type":[1050],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n