Federal Judge Slashes Emotional Damages Award by Two-Thirds
Cutting a jury's emotional damages award by two-thirds, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that a plaintiff who has no evidence of "long-lasting effects" from a brief period of emotional trauma is not entitled to more than $50,000. The ruling also overturns the jury's award of punitive damages. The judge found that the jury's award of $150,000 in damages was "shocking to the judicial conscience" because there was "no evidence that [the plaintiff] was changed in any lasting way."
