United States Sixth Circuit

Order in a product liability case upholding a $3 million punitive damage award and denying defendant, a pickup truck manufacturer's, motion for remittitur is reversed where the punitive damage award was constitutionally excessive, and the amount of punitive damages is remitted to $471,258.26.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2006
• Published 02/01/2006

Judges

• Before:  KENNEDY and MOORE, Circuit Judges;  RESTANI, Chief Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Richard Hay, Law Office of Richard Hay, Somerset, Kentucky, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Thomas H. Dupree, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, D.C., Lawrence A. Sutter, Sutter, O'Connell, Mannion & Farchione, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.  Richard Hay, Law Office of Richard Hay, Somerset, Kentucky, for Appellee.