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SOUTHERN UNION CO. v. IRVIN

No. 06-17347.

548 F.3d 1230 (2008)

SOUTHERN UNION COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James M. IRVIN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 7, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Mandel, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Phoenix, AR, for defendant-appellant.

Tom Q. Ferguson, Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, L.L.P., Tulsa, OK, for plaintiff-appellee.

Concurrence by Judge REINHARDT; Dissent by Judge NOONAN.

ORDER

The jury in this case awarded $975,181 in compensatory damages to Southern Union Company, of which it assessed forty percent or $395,072.38 against James M. Irvin, and went on to assess an additional $60,000,000 of punitive damages against him. On appeal, we vacated the punitive damage award, which amounted to punitive damages of over 153 times the compensatory damage award. See S. Union Co. v. Sw. Gas Corp.,...

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