Sentences with phrase «reducing punitive damages awards»

Corporate groups consider reducing punitive damages awards one of their top priorities.

In the Court of Appeal's decision, Laskin J.A. reduced the punitive damages awarded at trial by a significant amount.

The Court of Appeal11 reduced the punitive damage award to $ 100,000 against Wal - Mart and $ 10,000 against the manager.

The sole dissenter, D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh, would have found Olivia liable but would have reduced the punitive damages award from $ 10 million to $ 20,000.

Permits a court to reduce a punitive damages award if deterrence can be achieved without the award.

Not exact matches

Mr. Keays» has also cross-appealed from the Ontario Court of Appeal decision reducing the $ 500,000.00 punitive damages award he received at trial to $ 100,000.00.

Following an appeal by Home Hardware the aggravated damages were set aside and the punitive damages were reduced to $ 75,000 however, the notice award and defamation damages in the amount of $ 60,000 were upheld.

In case involving First Union National Bank's violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Sixth Circuit holds that 1 - to - 1 ratio of punitive to compensatory damages is maximum federal due process will allow: And because the compensatory damages total $ 400,000, the district court's original award of $ 2,628,600 in punitive damages must likewise be reduced to $ 400,000.

In reducing the original punitive damages award, the Court of Appeal balanced the legitimate objective of «punishing» the employer against a requirement of proportionality based on the specific facts of the case.

In reducing Coalson's punitive damage award to $ 50,000, the trial court noted that it rendered her compensatory damage award to «less than a ten percent ratio» in relation to her punitive damage award.

The trial court noted the defendant's «egregious» conduct, sustained Stemke's punitive damage award, and granted remittitur of Coalson's award, and reduced it by half.

Accordingly, I would allow Wal - Mart's appeal on punitive damages and reduce the award from $ 1,000,000 to $ 100,000.

Accordingly, I would allow Pinnock's appeal on punitive damages and reduce the jury's award from $ 150,000 to $ 10,000.

In deciding that the award of punitive damages against Wal - Mart should be reduced, however, Justice Laskin wrote:

Drawing on Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., 2002 SCC 18, if an award of punitive damages, together with the compensatory damages awarded, «produces a total sum that is so «inordinately large» that it exceeds what is «rationally» required to punish the defendant, it will be reduced or set aside on appeal».

Concluding that the award against Ford was excessive, the court reduced the noneconomic damages award to $ 18 million and lowered the punitive damages award to $ 55 million.

[62] Putting the test the other way around, «if the award of punitive damages when added to compensatory damages, produces a total sum that is so «inordinately large» that it exceeds what is «rationally» required to punish the defendant, it will be reduced or set aside on appeal,»: see Whiten, at para. 109.

The court reduced a $ 200,000 compensatory damages award to $ 50,000, and a $ 250,000 punitive damages award to $ 50,000.

In addressing state fair housing violations, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, affirmed the Division of Human Rights (DHR) finding of liability for racial steering, left the $ 10,000 punitive damages award intact, and remitted the case to DHR to reduce the compensatory award from $ 30,000 to no more than $ 5,000.