In re Marriage of Baker

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• noting that, in light of State Farm, a district court erred “[i]n certifying a class that seeks an assessment of punitive damages prior to an actual determination and award of compensatory damages”
• rejecting lump-sum punitive damages award because the “conduct relevant to the reprehensibility analysis must have a nexus to the specific harm suffered by the plaintiff, and ,.. it [can]not be independent of or dissimilar to the conduct that harms the plaintiff’
• “We hold that the order certifying this punitive damages class must be vacated because there is no evidence by which 12 This footnote In re Telectronics Pacing Sys., Inc., 221 F.3d 870, 877 n.5 (6th Cir. 2000

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