Legal Opinion
Dorothy B. Bach v. First Union National Bank
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 15, 2007No. 06-3660PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
Following trial, a jury determined that defendant-appellant First Union National Bank (FUNB) breached certain provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1681x, and awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages and $2,628,600 in punitive damages to plaintiff-appellee, Dorothy Bach. FUNB appealed, claiming, among other things, that the punitive damages award was excessive and in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We agreed and accordingly remanded to the district court…
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