INTER MEDICAL SUPPLIES v. EBI MEDICAL SYSTEMS

No. 98-5158.

181 F.3d 446 (1999)

INTER MEDICAL SUPPLIES, LTD., v. EBI MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.; Electro-Biology, Inc.; Biomet, Inc. v. Orthofix, Ltd. Orthofix International, N.V. (D.C. Civil No. 95-06035) Orthofix, Inc.; Orthofix S.R.L. v. EBI Medical Systems, Inc.; Electro-Biology, Inc.; Biomet, Inc. (D.C. Civil No. 96-01047) EBI Medical Systems, Inc.; Electro-Biology, Inc.; Biomet, Inc., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed June 28, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Dunner, Griffith B. Price, Jr., Don O. Burley, Jeffrey B. Chasnow, Howard A. Kwon, Richard L. Rainey, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Washington, D.C.,

John J. Gibbons (Argued), David Fernandez, Paul M. Hauge, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, N.J.,

Arthur P. Kalleres, Thomas E. Hixdorf, Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan. Indianapolis, Ind., Attorneys for Appellants.

Joel Schneider, Archer & Greiner Haddonfield, N.J.,

Dennis P. Orr, Scott Mortman, Mayer, Brown & Platt, New York, N.Y.,

Stephen J. Marzen (Argued), Wendy E. Ackerman, Reginald R. Goeke, Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Roopal R. Shah, Shearman & Sterling, Washington, D.C., Attorneys for Appellee.

Before: SLOVITER, GARTH, and MAGILL, Circuit Judges


OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

Following a lengthy trial, a jury found for plaintiff companies on all of the breach of contract and tort claims submitted to it and it returned a verdict of $48 million in compensatory damages and more than $100 million in punitive damages. The District Court denied the defendants' motions for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial but granted a remittitur reducing the award of punitive damages to $50...

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