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Leonin v. Salapare: $25,000 Punitive Damages Award Reversed

August 4, 2009

Here’s yet another unpublished opinion from the California Court of Appeal (Fourth Appellate District, Division Two) reversing a punitive damages award because the plaintiff failed to meet its burden of introducing sufficient evidence of the defendant’s financial condition. This seems to happen about once a month.

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