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Conversations with the Honorable Dick Thornburgh
September 2003
Washington Legal Foundation, Bulletin on Punitive Damages
On April 7, 2003, in State Farm
Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Campbell, the
U.S. Supreme Court issued its most
definitive pronouncement on punitive
damages to date. The Court’s
ruling will have a profound impact
on a wide range of civil lawsuits,
and comes at a time when judges
and juries are issuing increasingly
inflated punitive awards.