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• But he said further testimony will be introduced about the " reprehensibility " of the company's conduct.
• Weighed against the factor of reprehensibility, the punitive damage award as reduced by the trial judge was not excessive ."
• Nonetheless, they wrote, the punishment should " reflect the gravity and reprehensibility of Jackson's offense ."
• It did say courts reviewing punitive damage awards should consider the " degree of reprehensibility " and the ratio between punitive and compensatory damages.
• Under California law, punitive damages are supposed to factor in the reprehensibility of the crime but also should bear some resemblance to the defendant's worth.
• They include the reprehensibility of the conduct being punished, the ratio between compensatory and punitive awards and the difference between the punitive award and any relevant civil or criminal sanctions.
• Union Pacific appealed, but the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the verdict this year in a blistering opinion that said Union Pacific behaved with a " high degree of reprehensibility ."
• In a 1996 Supreme Court ruling, BMW vs . Gore, the nation's highest court ruled that punitive damage awards must be commensurate with the reprehensibility of the act committed.
• He held that it was contrary to common sense that a person who receives property as a gift could be said to be acting dishonestly, regardless of the moral reprehensibility of accepting it.
• The three factors are the reprehensibility of the conduct, the harm to the victim, and a comparison between the jury award and the civil or criminal penalties state law imposes for comparable misconduct.
• "The jury obviously focused on the reprehensibility of the conduct, " he said, " particularly in view of the fact that he's not going to be punished anywhere else ."
• Sorgdrager said in a statement that the criminal proceedings are " not to obtain a sentence with respect to the reprehensibility of the medical treatment but primarily with regards to the development of law in this area ."
• In the closing argument for punitive damages, Plaintiff s counsel argued that the reprehensibility of the conduct was extremely high because the unlawful acts were committed by the legal department which was responsible for guiding operations around the world.
• The first was the " degree of reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct " : whether the behavior had put people's health or safety at risk, for example, or whether there was evidence of bad faith.
• The court stated that the elders as agents of the Watch Tower Society failed to disclose to other parents regarding the confession of the molester who inappropriately touched his step daughter, adding that the degree of reprehensibility was of " medium range ".
• In awarding punitive damages, a California jury must first consider the reprehensibility of the defendant's action, then seek to come up with an amount that fits the crime, but that also bears a rational relationship to the financial worth of the defendant.
• The Court held that punitive damages must be reasonable, as determined by the degree of reprehensibility of the conduct that caused the plaintiff's injury, the ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages, and any comparable criminal or civil penalties applicable to the conduct.
• Justice Andrew Kleinfeld, in writing the unanimous decision, noted that Exxon mitigated its reprehensibility by spending over $ 2 billion to remove the oil from the water and adjacent shores, " and even from the individual birds and other wildlife dirtied by the oil ."
• In his decision, Stevens said the award went far beyond what BMW might have reasonably expected to suffer for its conduct and said courts should consider factors like " degree of reprehensibility " and the mathematical ratio between punitive and actual damages in deciding whether to uphold awards.
• In instructing the jurors in the second half of the trial, Judge John E . Munter of San Francisco Superior Court cited three criteria for determining punitive damages : the reprehensibility of the conduct, the deterrent effect of the award and a reasonable relationship to the actual harm done to Ms . Weeks.