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.
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.
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.
The punitive judgment by the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance, based on the controversial right to be forgotten online established by the European Court of Justice, breaks new ground in making the subsidiary liable for the activities of its parent company – in this case Google Inc.
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.
Hoping to dissuade a Miami-Dade County jury from recommending a huge punitive judgment, the chief executive of Philip Morris Inc., Michael Szymanczyk, testified today that a series of lawsuits in the 1990's "made it pretty clear the company was out of alignment with society's expectations of it".
The "Jackpot Belt," southern states such as Mississippi, where until 1995 there had never been a punitive judgment for more than $9 million.
I had moments of liberation when I lost myself to the joy of reckless abandon, but was met each and every time with your punitive judgment.
