The ABA Journal discusses the latest jurisprudence on punitive damage awards:
"Tort reformers were at no loss for superlatives after the U.S. Supreme Court put some meat on the bones of a 1996 decision holding that enormous punitive damages may run afoul of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. . . . The justices in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, No. 01-1289 (April 7), may have been trying to give enough guidance to avoid becoming the court of last resort for an endless parade of punitive damages cases," it says here.