Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Trump’s Worst Lawyer Costs Him Millions (Carroll v. Trump)" video.

  1. 18:00 - The flaw in the Supreme Court's reasoning there is that punitive damages aren't determined by the amount of money the defendant needs to give the plaintiff to compensate them for the harm suffered; they're determined by the amount of money you need to fine the defendant to deter them from doing it again. Requiring punitive damages to be proportionate to compensatory damages would defeat the whole purpose of punitive damages, which is (as the name suggests) to punish the offender, rather than to compensate the victim.
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  2. It's a shame juries aren't allowed to award "all the defendant's money" as punitive damages...
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