Sentence examples for punitive judgment from inspiring English sources

Doing so in the Miami case could delay a punitive judgment for years, since compensatory damages must be considered individually and hundreds of thousands of people are involved.

That trial ended with an $18.5 million punitive judgment against the Boy Scouts of America, the largest ever by far against the organization in a sex case jury trial.

But the most recent in a long series of blows, a Florida jury's $145 billion punitive judgment against the industry, has brought a certain fatigue with this particular villain.

But the amount of punitive judgment the industry said it could afford to pay represents a fraction of its audited net worth, and could be recouped in just a few days of wholesale cigarette sales, critics of the industry said.

A18 Effort to Sway Tobacco Jury The chief executive of Philip Morris, Michael Szymanczyk, testified in a Miami courtroom in an effort to dissuade a jury from recommending a huge punitive judgment in a class-action suit by Florida smokers.

Cigarette makers want the country to believe that "they are good boys and girls" who have learned their lesson, said the lawyer, Stanley Rosenblatt, in opening statements in what could be a multibillion-dollar punitive judgment in Miami-Dade Circuit Court against top cigarette manufacturers.

So the Legislature, citing the cases of the two ranchers, introduced a measure this year intended to make the ban on punitive judgments for illegal immigrants retroactive to 2004.

While Duke can still appeal the $2 million punitive damage judgment, here's a chance to finance Mercer's scholarship fund for young female athletes.

Fishermen recount once again their complicated journeys from the spill to the payments they received just last year from a punitive damages judgment of about $500 million against Exxon in 1994.

"For a period of 50 years, these tobacco companies denied the dangers of their product," said Leighton A. Finegan, the foreman of a six-member jury here that punished the tobacco industry with a $144.8 billion punitive damage judgment, the largest damage award in history.

Despite the $145 billion Florida punitive damage judgment against the tobacco industry, investors are moving into the sector, lured by low price/earnings multiples and hefty dividend yields.