Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Justin Combs Publishing

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding 2:1 or 1:1 ratio was all that due process tolerated where $366,939 in compensatory damages was awarded and one reprehensi bility factor was present
• in a copyright infringement case, the harm was the result of intentional malice or deceit because the defendant acted willfully by ignoring pre-litigation letters and re-releasing album knowing it contained an “unauthorized sample”
• “In this case where only one of the reprehensibility factors is present, a ratio in the range of 1:1 to 2:1 is all that due process will allow.”
• based on “the low level of reprehensibility of defendants’ conduct, a ratio of closer to 1:1 or 2:1 is all that due process can tolerate in this case”
• based on “the low level of reprehensibility of defendants’ conduct, a ratio of closer to 1:1 or 2:1 is all that due process can tolerate in this case”
• based on “the low level of reprehensibility of defendants’ conduct, a ratio of closer to 1:1 or 2:1 is all that due process can tolerate in this case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).