But even if the amount of the judgment is reduced substantially, tobacco companies have been shown vulnerable in court a way they never were before: Between 1954 and 1994, despite hundreds of lawsuits, the tobacco industry paid not one dollar in damages to plaintiffs alleging death and disease from smoking.
Furthermore, moral judgments are reduced to statements of a psychological state, so much so that ethics becomes a branch of empirical psychology.
Though the remuneration was reduced to $3 billion, the judgment eventually forced Texaco to file for bankruptcy.
If accuracy was above 85%%, stimulus bar size was reduced by 1 pixel to make the discrimination judgment more difficult.
You know, the verdict the conservative "activist judges" on the Supreme Court set precedent and forever capped negligent corporation's punitive damages?! WHAT?! Their initial $5 billion dollar judgment had been reduced to $500 million.
What Columbine did was reduce the judgment available to schools, because you were too susceptible to making the wrong judgment, and the wrong judgment was going to cost people's lives".
The deal drew scorn from many, who saw it as evidence that publishers, in an era of stagnant sales, had so lost confidence in their own judgment that they were reduced to the methods of "American Idol".
Although it is universally true of the aesthetic that the object involuntarily pleases or repels, yet the objects of aesthetic judgment themselves cannot be reduced to a formula.
Nor can the judgment of the impartial spectator be reduced to the judgment of society, even where those two judgments coincide.
Here we face the problem that if we want to consider variability for estimation of change and define MIC equal to MDC, the instrument's ability to identify true improvement, as defined by subjective judgment of the patient, is reduced.
