Legal Opinion Letters

February 27, 2009

Legal Opinion Letters

An Emerging Trend?: Federal Appeals Court Limits Punitive Damages to 1:1 Ratio

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By Curt Cutting, a partner at Horvitz & Levy LLP, the nation’s largest law firm devoted exclusively to civil appellate litigation.

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