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"Souter favored limits on punitive damages"

Fortune.com has an article online today entitled "What will Souter's retirement mean for business? Justice favored limits on punitive damages."

I posted a few thoughts on this topic earlier this month, in response to a post on the Volokh Conspiracy.

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Posted by Curt Cutting at 11:49 AM

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