Cynthia Keehr and Bruce Keehr v. Consolidated Freightways of Delaware, Inc.

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• “[T]he appropriateness of a punitive damage award is determined by the degree of the defendant’s misconduct rather than by the amount of compensatory damages awarded.”
• no preemption found where plaintiff had a verbal and physical altercation with his supervisor during which the supervisor made sexually explicit remarks about plaintiff's wife
• plaintiff union employee can sue his employer for defaming his wife's chastity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).