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1. They're not going to pay $350,000 any more than they'd pay $24 million

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Jan 3, 2023, 07:13 PM

Jan 2023

Caps on punitive damages allow the most egregious offenders a free pass to do their worst. In the case of the Unite the Right dumbasses, it doesn't really matter. These fuckers have the same number of nickels as they have brain cells to rub together.

But the Virginia legislature should by all means revisit this cap. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the 1988 law was enacted at the behest of the tobacco companies.

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