4523 REVIEW DENIED In an employment discrimination case, a reduction by the court of the jurys award of compensatory damages did not require reduction of the punitive damages award; no authority suggests that the ratio of compensatory to punitive damages awarded by a jury must be maintained; following the reduction of compensatory damages, the resulting one-to-one ratio of compensatory to punitive damages was justified.CitationMcGEE v TUCOEMAS (Federal Credit Union) 153 CA4 1351 [See: 12 USC 1757(2); Loeffler v Frank 486 US 549; TI Federal CU v DelBonis 72 F3 921; State Farm v Campbell 538 US 408; T/AT 7/03]
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