Nearly a decade after Missouri last limited some civil lawsuit awards, Republican lawmakers are organizing to reinstate caps overturned by the state's highest court.
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Read More »Nearly a decade after Missouri last limited some civil lawsuit awards, Republican lawmakers are organizing to reinstate caps overturned by the state's highest court.
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Read More »The Missouri Supreme Court has restored a $1 million punitive damages award against a former Kansas City car dealer, ruling that a state law capping the amount couldn’t be applied constitutionally.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court, rejecting corporate calls to restrict punitive damages, turned away Ford Motor Co.’s appeal of a $55 million award in the case of a woman paralyzed when her Explorer sport utility vehicle rolled over. The rebuff means ...
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Read More »The days of large punitive-damage awards may be coming to an end. Erwin Chemerinsky, law professor and founding dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law, said the U.S. Supreme Court moved litigants down the road to lower punitive ...
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