English v. Angel

How courts have described this case

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

• collecting state cases and noting that \both state and federal courts have recognized that no single court can fashion an effective response to the national problem flowing from mass exposure to asbestos products.\
• requiring proof of punitive damages \actually paid in the past\ and rejecting consideration of \non-final awards of punitive damages\ and of settlements where OCF did not segregate settlement amounts paid as punitive damages
• collecting state cases and noting that “both state and federal courts have recognized that no single court can fashion an effective response to the national problem flowing from mass exposure to asbestos products.”
• requiring proof of punitive damages “actually paid in the past” and rejecting consideration of “non-final awards of punitive damages” and of settlements where OCF did not segregate settlement amounts paid as punitive damages
• looking to “[t]he combined teachings within the specification” 2 for evidence of how one of ordinary skill in the art would understand a term
• denying remittitur request and finding that the punitive damages “award fixed by the trial court was well within [defendant’s] ability to pay . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).