4034 Although the amount of punitive damages awarded cannot be based on the defendant's reprehensible conduct directed at others than plaintiff, due process does not prohibit all consideration of defendant's similarly wrongful conduct toward others, because the fact that defendant's conduct was part of a repeated corporate practice made it more reprehensible.CitationJOHNSON v FORD MOTOR CO (Lemon Law Puni's) 35 C4 1191 [See: CivC 1790-1795.7; State Farm v Campbell 538 US 408, T/AT 6/03; Romo v Ford 113 Cal.App.4th 738; T/AT 1/04; Simon v San Paolo 35 C4 1159, T/AT 7/05]
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