Sand Hill Energy, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co.

In its haste to place its imprimatur on this outrageous verdict by a Clay County “runaway” jury and, presumably, to redistribute the wealth of an out-of-state corporation with requisite deep pockets to stimulate the economy of eastern Kentucky, the majority opinion ignores the facts of this case, our own long-standing precedents, and the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court.

This accident occurred on September 2, 1993, at a strip mine site owned by Sand Hill Energy, Inc., near…