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Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment Is Not Double Punishment

Civil Punitive Damages On Top Of Criminal Punishment
Is Not Double Punishment

by John E. Dannenberg


The California Court of Appeals held that a drunk driver convicted of vehicular manslaughter was not constitutionally immune from the second punishment of punitive damages obtained in a subsequent civil suit by the decedent's ...

 

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