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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Consumer Products, Injury And Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies |
| Title: | Philip Morris USA v. Williams |
| Date: | 02/20/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1256 |
| Summary: | A punitive damages award, based in part on a jury's desire to punish a defendant for harming nonparties, amounts to a taking of property from the defendant without due process. A judgment rejecting a tobacco company's challenges to a punitive damages award against it in a negligence and deceit case is vacated where the Oregon Supreme Court applied the wrong constitutional standard when considering the tobacco company's appeal. |