Romanski v. Detroit Entertainment

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that award of “no greater than $600,000 ... would satisfy the demands of the due process clause”
• concluding that award of “no greater than $600,000 . . . would satisfy the demands of the due process clause”
• declining to apply a ratio analysis in a case resulting in low economic damages; “in cases where the compensatory award is very low or nominal, any appreciable exemplary award would produce a ratio that would appear excessive by this measure”
• directing the district court to remit punitive damages award from $875,000 to $600,000 and deeming ratio of 2150 to 1 acceptable where “basis for punitive damages award was the plaintiffs unlawful arrest and the plaintiffs economic injury was so minimal as to be essentially nominal”
• directing the district court to remit punitive damages award from $875,000 to $600,000 and deeming ratio of 2150 to 1 acceptable where “basis for punitive damages award was the plaintiff’s unlawful arrest and the plaintiff’s economic injury was so minimal as to be essentially nominal”
• looking outside circuit case law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).