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4641 REVIEW DENIED A trial court erred in refusing defendant's request for an instruction warning the jury that it should not award punitive damages because of harm defendant's conduct inflicted on non-parties; in view of a compensatory damages award of less than one million dollars, the trial court's reduction of the jury's punitive damages award from $28 billion to $28 million still resulted in an excessive award, so a new trial was required solely on the amount of punitive damages.CitationBULLOCK v PHILLIP MORRIS (Huge Tobacco Puni's) 159 CA4 655 [See: CCP 662.5; State Farm v Campbell 538 US 408, T/AT 7/03; BMW v Gore 517 US 559; Johnson v Ford 35 C4 1191, T/AT 7/05, Philip Morris v Williams 127 SCt 1057]
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