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4202 REVIEW DENIED By comparing it to the conduct of tobacco companies in callously marketing their products, a grocery chain's ratification of its employee's sexual harassment was found to be only moderately reprehensible and therefore to justify only a 6:1 ratio of punitive to compensatory damages; the constitutionally permissible maximum ratio of punitive to compensatory damages is a question of law that can be determined by a trial court on a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and on appellate review of the trial court's ruling on the motion.CitationGOBER v RALPHS GROCERY CO (Maximum Puni's) 137 CA4 204 [See: CivC 3294; State Farm v Campbell 538 US 408, T/AT 7/03; Simon v San Paolo 35 C4 1159, T/AT 7/05]
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