Matter of NYP Holdings, Inc. v. New York City Police Dept.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a punitive award of $2,000,000 violated the Fourteenth Anendment in a case where BMW was found liable for economic injury of only $4,000
• holding that states may not impose economic sanctions for violations of their laws with the intent of changing tortfea-sors’ lawful conduct in other states
• holding that a $2,000,000 punitive damage award was grossly excessive and therefore exceeds the constitutional limit
• holding that a defendant is entitled to fair notice of “the conduct that will subject him to punishment”
• holding that excessive punitive damages violate due process because wrongdoers lack fair notice of what conduct is punishable and by how much
• holding that a $2,000,000 punitive damage award was grossly excessive and therefore exceeds the constitutional limit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).