Spencer Ondirsek v. Bernie Hoffman

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• affirming a compensatory damage award of $3 million for “pain, suffering, and mental anguish”
• reducing a 10:1 ratio to 4:1 in a case involving “extreme reprehensibility,” where the defendant cult leader repeatedly- and brutally battered- minors, despite having been previously found liable of beating children under similar circumstances
• noting Supreme Court has suggested that a 4:1 ratio “might be close to the line of constitutional impropriety” and quoting State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408, 419, 123 S.Ct. 1513, 155 L.Ed.2d 585 (2003)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).