MAN Aktiengesellschaft v. DaimlerChrysler AG

The state is not a party to the underlying dispute between plaintiffs and defendants in. this case but asserts that it has an interest under ORS 31.735 in the jury’s award of punitive damages. The state has appealed from a supplemental judgment dismissing the case that the trial court entered as part of a settlement between plaintiffs and defendants. As part of entering the supplemental judgment, the trial court vacated the general judgment that it had previously entered, in which the state was a judgment creditor as to 60 percent of the jury’s award of punitive damages to plaintiffs. On our…