Punitive damages : how juries decide /

Punitive damages : how juries decide /

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Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Exemplary damages -- United States.
Jury -- United States.
Exemplary damages.
Jury.
United States.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206558
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Other authors / contributors:Sunstein, Cass R.
ISBN:9780226780160
0226780163
9780226780146
0226780147
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries in civil trials. Probably the most extraordinary example is the July 2000 award of 144.8 billion in the Florida class action lawsuit brought against cigarette manufacturers. Or consider two recent verdicts against the auto manufacturer BMW in Alabama. In identical cases, argued in the same court before the same judge, one jury awarded 4 million in punitive damages, while the other awarded no punitive damages at all. In cases involving accidents.
Other form:Print version: Punitive damages. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2002 9780226780146

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