Legal Opinion
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 7, 2003No. 01-1289PublishedCited by 2,158 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
We address once again the measure of punishment, by means of punitive damages, a State may impose upon a defendant in a civil case. The question is whether, in the circumstances we shall recount, an award of $145 million in punitive damages, where full compensatory damages are $.1 million, is excessive and in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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In 1981, Curtis Campbell (Campbell) was driving with his wife, Inez Preece Campbell, in Cache County, Utah. He decided to pass six vans traveling ahead of them on a two-lane highway.…
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