Casillas-Diaz v. Palau

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that litigants have “an unflagging obligation to spell out their contentions ‘squarely and distinctly, or else forever hold [their] peace,’ ” adding that a cursory mention of a possible argument will not suffice
• upholding a jury award of a total of $1,000,000 in punitive damages in an exces- sive physical force case ($250,000 against each of the four defend- ant-officers)
• affirming 10:1 ratio as to the first of two plaintiffs
• $250,000 awarded to the second of two plaintiffs
• $50,000 awarded to the first of two plaintiffs
• 2:1 as to the second of two plaintiffs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).