California Punitive Damages

This blawg discusses California punitive damages litigation.

Author: Curt Cutting, Lisa Perrochet, and Jeremy Rosen are partners at Horvitz & Levy in Encino, Calif.

Blawg Related Categories: Appellate Practice • Consumer Law • Tort Law • States • California • Partner

Commentary on Prof. Dan Markel's Punitive Damages Theory
Professor Michael OHear has posted this commentary on the Marquette University Law School law blog about a presentation made by Florida State law professor Dan Markel. Prof. Markel presented his paper "How Should Punitive Damages…
Punitive Damages Now Available in Thailand
Thailand News Today reports (in a blog post authored by Chaiporn Supvoranid, a partner at Baker & McKenzie), that Thailand has passed a law known as the "Consumer Cases Act" which "introduces several new concepts…
San Diego Jury Awards $40 Million in Punitive Damages For Crash of Marine Helicopter
According to the LA Times, a jury today awarded $15.2 million in compensatory damages and $40.4 million in punitive damages against San Diego Gas & Electric Company in a case involving a helicopter crash that…
Off Topic: "Motion to Strike Hunger"
Please pardon this interruption from our usual punitive damages programming, but it's for a good cause. You may not have heard, but September 2008 is national Hunger Action Month. From September 15 to September 30,…
Wal-Mart Settles With Adidas In Case With Potential for Major Punitive Damages
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The First Batch of Merits Briefs in Williams III Available Online
Philip Morris and its amici have filed the first batch of briefs on the merits in Philip Morris v. Williams (Williams III). (Click here for our prior post about the grant of certiorari in Williams…
Video Interview With Gov. Palin on Exxon Valdez Decision
Following up on the posts below, here's a video interview with Governor Palin about the Supreme Court's opinion reducing the punitive damages in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker.
VP Candidate Palin Was Eligible to Participate in Exxon Valdez Class
This post on the Blog of Legal Times reports that Senator McCain's running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, was eligible to join the plaintiff class in the Exxon Valdez case. Her husband, Todd Palin was…
The Presidential Race, and Views on Punitive Damages
Interesting that Slate faulted Obama for not bashing SCOTUS over the "activist" Exxon Valdez decision, saying, "Obama spent the final days of the Supreme Court term celebrating conservative constitutional outcomes rather than calling out dubious…
Lu v. Qi: California Court of Appeal Grants Rehearing and Affirms a Punitive Damages Award It Had Previously Reversed
Here's something you don't see every day. Or even every year. It's not often that the California Court of Appeal grants a petition for rehearing and completely changes directions from its original opinion. But that's…