3rd Circ. Says 'Nominal' Jury Award Can't Influence Punitives

By Matthew Santoni ( August 29, 2019, 6:15 PM EDT) -- A Pennsylvania federal judge was wrong to compare a jury's $1 "nominal" damages award in favor of a Dauphin County horse farm to its $89,999 punitive damages award, and to decide the difference between the two was too vast to be constitutional, the Third Circuit said Wednesday....

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