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How courts have described this case

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• holding that a jury assessment of the amount of punitive damages \is an inherent and fundamental right\ guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment
• holding that a jury assessment of the amount of punitive damages “is an inherent and fundamental right” guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment
• when applying state substantive law and federal procedural law, “state substantive law governs the circumstances justifying an award and the amount of punitive damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).