MOTOROLA CREDIT CORP. v. UZAN

Docket No. 06-1222-cv.

509 F.3d 74 (2007)

MOTOROLA CREDIT CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee, Nokia Corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant, v. Kemal UZAN, Cem Cengiz Uzan, Murat Hakan Uzan, Melahut Uzan, Aysegul Akay, and Antonio Luna Betancourt, Defendants-Appellants, Cem Cengiz Uzan and Murat Hakan Uzan, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants, Unikom Iletism Hizmetleri Pazarlama A.S., Standart Pazarlama A.S. and Standart Telekomunikasyon Bilgisayar Hizmetleri A.S., Defendants, Credit Lyonnais, UBS AG and Bruce G. Howell, ABN Amro Bank N.V., Movants, Motorola Inc., Kroll Associates, Inc., Christopher B. Galvin, Keith J. Bane, Walter Keating, Ed Hughes, and Ernst Kramer, Counter-Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: November 21, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard H. Stahl (Steven K. Davidson & Bruce C. Bishop on the brief), Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee.

Ryan E. Bull (R. Stan Mortenson & Benjamin E. Kringer on the brief), Baker Botts LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: WINTER, CALABRESI, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.


CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, the Uzan family of Turkey challenges the district court's award of $1 billion in punitive damages against it. The court based the punitive damages award on its findings that appellants "engaged in a coordinated campaign of lies and misrepresentations in order to swindle Motorola of more than $2 billion" and that, "threatened with exposure, [appellants] resorted not only to further lies and corporate manipulations but even...

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