Legal Opinion
Cheatham v. Pohle
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided May 30, 2003No. 40S01-0209-CV-471PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION FOR TRANSFER
BOEHM, Justice.
Indiana's punitive damages allocation statute provides that an award of punitive damages is to be paid to the clerk of the court, and the clerk is to pay seventy-five percent of it to the State's Violent Crime Victims' Compensation Fund and twenty-five percent to the plaintiff. We hold the *470statute does not create an unconstitutional taking of property. Nor does it place a demand on an attorney's particular services in violation of the Indiana Constitution.
Factual and Procedural Background
After Doris Cheatham and Michael Pohle divorced in 1994, Pohle…
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