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Supreme Court Tobacco Case Expert: Empirical Evidence Proves Juries Behave Rationally When Making Punitive Damage Awards, Duke Law Professor Says.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, October, 2006
Byline: Duke University
DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Juries behave rationally and deliberately when they make large punitive damage awards, says Duke University law professor Neil Vidmar.
Vidmar, who conducts empirical studies on the legal system, including the subject of punitive damages, is the principal author of an amicus brief filed in the case of Philip Morris USA v. Mayola Williams, which is scheduled for argument in the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 31. His brief has been endorsed by 23 other academics who also study jury awards.
In the pending case, Philip Morris is challenging an Oregon jury's award to a smoker's widow of more than $79 million in punitive damages on top of a compensatory damage award of $500,000,...
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