Byron Stier has posted to SSRN Judicial Review of Individual Punitive Damage Awards in Light of Aggregate Punitive Damages. The abstract provides:
Over more than three decades of reviewing punitive damages awards for due process, the United States Supreme Court has increasingly clarified that punitive damages awards are personal: while juries may consider harm to others for purposes of assessing the reprehensibility of a defendant’s actions, each plaintiff must only be awarded that plaintiff’s …