UNITED STATES: Ruling improves business legal climate

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  • Reducing 'punitive damages'
  • 'Reprehensibility' test
  • 'Grossly excessive' awards?
  • Legal significance
  • Impractical distinction?
  • Unresolved issues
  • Congressional response
  • State responses
  • Aggressive attorneys general
  • State-level lobbying
  • 'Entrepreneurial' trial lawyers

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