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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Apr 24, 2024, 12:40 PM Apr 2024

Judge halves $784M for women exposed to Monsanto chemicals at Monroe school

MONROE — A judge Tuesday more than halved the hundreds of millions of dollars awarded months ago to seven women who claimed exposure to harmful Monsanto-manufactured chemicals at the Sky Valley Education Center.

After a two-month trial in December, a King County jury awarded the women $784 million in punitive damages and $73 million in compensatory damages, a staggering sum that rivaled the combined total of all previous cases over exposure at the Monroe school.

Not long after, Monsanto’s lawyers returned to court, arguing the “arbitrary and excessive” damages “cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny.”

The Monsanto lawyers, Jennifer Campbell and Hunter Ahern, pushed King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers to make equal the punitive and compensatory damages. The initial award from the jury had a ratio of over 10-to-1 punitive to compensatory.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/judge-halves-784m-for-women-exposed-to-monsanto-chemicals-at-monroe-school/

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Judge halves $784M for women exposed to Monsanto chemicals at Monroe school (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2024 OP
Kickin' with DISGUST Faux pas Apr 2024 #1
The whole system of awarding punitive damages to victims is wrong. The purpose is to punish the miscreant, not Wonder Why Apr 2024 #2

Wonder Why

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2. The whole system of awarding punitive damages to victims is wrong. The purpose is to punish the miscreant, not
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 02:46 PM
Apr 2024

enrich the plaintiffs. All punitive damages should go to the state/feds depending what court was used for the suit.

The compensatory damages are meant to cover the plaintiffs.

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