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Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award

JonathanTurley

For example, in 1996, the justices limited state-awards of punitive damages under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In that case, BMW was found to have repainted luxury cars damaged in transit without telling buyers. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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The Curious Fraud Case Against Trump Just Got ‘Curiouser’

JonathanTurley

Gore , striking down a punitive damage award. The case involved the practice of the company to repair and repaint cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. It would be akin to the car owner’s value going up with the paint job but still hitting BMW with punitive damages.