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Tansy_Gold

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Sat Oct-06-07 08:30 AM
Response to Reply #19

21. Appeals court will probably reduce the award the way

they did in the Stella Liebeck hot coffee case. Liebeck was originally awarded $2.2 million in punitive damages (2 days' coffee sales in 1994) on top of $600K civil damages by jury, but appeal lowered it to something in the neighborhood of a total of $200K.

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