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• upholding a remitted damages award with a punitive to compensatory ratio of 4.5 to one in an Iowa tort case where the conduct was “extraordinarily reprehensible”
• affirming a punitive damage award approximately 4.5 times greater than the compensatory damage award where only some of the reprehensibility factors weighed on the plaintiff's side
• affirming an award of punitive damages approximately 4.5 times greater than the compensatory damages award where the defendant had devised a scheme of fraud and evinced an intent to “f***” and “kill” the plaintiff’s business
• “[W]e conclude that the ratio of slightly more than 4.5:1 does not offend due process[.]”
• \[W]e conclude that the ratio of slightly more than 4.5:1 does not offend due process[.]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).