punitive damages

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Recent Examples of punitive damages Schuyler, who sold the Degrassi franchise to documentary co-producer WildBrain in 2014, is asking the court to stop the film from being released in its current form and grant her punitive damages. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025 Bellis later added $473 million in punitive damages, bringing the total libel judgment to $1,436,620,000—believed to be one of the largest in American history. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 Dixon seeks $260 million in punitive damages from Perry. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025 The firm also argued that punitive damages should be eliminated or reduced to, at most, three times compensatory damages due to a statutory cap in the state of Florida. Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for punitive damages

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“Punitive damages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/punitive%20damages. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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