Legal Opinion
Motorola Credit Corp. v. Uzan
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 21, 2007No. Docket 06-1222-cvPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, the Uzan family of Turkey challenges the district court’s award of $1 billion in punitive damages against it. The court based the punitive damages award on its findings that appellants “engaged in a coordinated campaign of lies and misrepresentations in order to swindle Motorola of more than $2 billion” and that, “threatened with exposure, [appellants] resorted not only to further lies and corporate manipulations but even to obstruction of justice and, ultimately, misrepresentations to this Court.” Motorola Credit Corp. v. Uzan, 413 F.Supp.2d 346, 349…
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3Cited by22 opinions
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