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Keeping The “Civil” In Civil Litigation: The Need For A Punitive Damage-Actual Damage Link In Title Vii Cases , David C. Searle
Keeping The “Civil” In Civil Litigation: The Need For A Punitive Damage-Actual Damage Link In Title Vii Cases , David C. Searle
Duke Law Journal
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Punitive Damages: How Jurors Fail To Promote Efficiency, W. Kip Viscusi
Punitive Damages: How Jurors Fail To Promote Efficiency, W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Evidence of corporate risk-cost balancing often leads to inefficient punitive damages awards, suggesting that jurors fail to base their decision making on principles of economic efficiency. In this Article, Professor Viscusi presents the results of two experiments regarding jury behavior and punitive damages. In the first experiment, Professor Viscusi found that mock jurors punish companies for balancing risk against cost, although award levels vary depending on how the economic analysis is presented at trial. The results of the second experiment suggested that mock jurors are unwilling or unable to follow a set of model jury instructions designed to generate efficient …