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- Title: Beyond State Farm: Due Process Constraints on Noneconomic Compensatory Damages.
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 430 KB
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INTRODUCTION Punitive damages and noneconomic compensatory damages (1) share much in common. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, such damages were largely undifferentiated and, in some respects, interchangeable, with punitive damages serving in part as an avenue of recovery for types of intangible harms not yet expressly recognized as compensable. Unlike economic damages, which have long been subject to relatively robust judicial scrutiny, judges traditionally have left determination of punitive and noneconomic compensatory damages almost exclusively to juries, subject only to review under such amorphous standards as abuse of discretion, passion or prejudice, or "shocks the conscience."