Texas jury awards $1.2 billion in revenge porn case

BBC news reports that a jury in Texas has awarded $200 million in compensatory damages and $1 billion in punitive damages to a woman who sued her ex-boyfriend for posting intimate photos of her online.  As the story notes, the award is uncollectible.  The defendant is not a billionaire.  But awards like this, and the press coverage of them, benefits plaintiffs and their attorneys in other punitive damages cases by normalizing verdicts of this size.