Turner v. Firstar Bank, N.A.

PRESIDING JUSTICE SPOMER

delivered the opinion of the court:

The due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the imposition of grossly excessive or arbitrary punishments on a tortfeasor. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408, 416, 155 L. Ed. 2d 585, 600, 123 S. Ct. 1513, 1519-20 (2003). This is because elementary notions of fairness enshrined in our nation’s constitutional jurisprudence dictate that a person or corporation receive fair notice not only of the conduct that will subject that person or corporation to…