Joan W. v. City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding reasonable a $75,000 award for a strip-search pursuant to a traffic stop
• stating that “[t]here is no reason for . . . a distinction [between different types of golden rule statements] because the jury’s departure from its neutral role is equally inappropriate regardless of the issue at stake”
• reducing a jury award because the award of compensatory damages so excessive as to constitute impermissible punitive damages against a municipality
• court must determine whether award is \rationally proportionate to awards assessed in similar cases for injuries that are no different in kind from those suffered by the plaintiff\
• “An appeal to the jury to imagine itself in the plaintiff’s position is impermissible because it encourages the jury to depart from its neutral role.”
• “[A]ppellate review is governed by the extremely limited abuse of discretion standard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).