But one lawyer, Daniel E. Becnel Jr., who has been moving his clients through the fund's claims process, argued that "nobody ever gets punitive damages here on virtually anything".
But also one that both sides could win if the Yankees don't get punitive and if Jeter takes the long view and high road to a forever-Yankee future.
Should the two members of the Native American Church in the case that prompted the first RFRA have gotten punitive damages from the private addiction center that fired them for using peyote in religious rituals?
"We need to get the punitive measures taken off the table".
"The whole thing got so punitive," she said in an interview.
Afterward, you get into punitive damage," said Anthony H. Cordesman, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Two friends and I took a regular bus back to school, where we got a punitive lecture about bailing on community participation.
Working with tenants, the NYCHA came up with an enforcement policy that gets increasingly punitive with each violation: from an informal chat with management, to documented warnings, to beginning eviction proceedings. .
For tobacco companies, getting the $144.8 billion punitive damage award handed down yesterday by a Miami jury reduced, and even possibly thrown out, may be the easy part.
With only a converted try separating them, this was getting down to punitive rugby, playing the percentages, keeping it tight and waiting - with all eyes on Mr Rolland's whistle.
