1.   Punitive damages are designed to punish and deter misconduct.

2.   Businesses say punitive damages are a burden on American industry, while trial attorneys and many consumer groups say they are needed to deter corporate misconduct.

3.   During that kind of injunction proceeding, the SEC said, courts have historically had the power to deter future misconduct by ordering wrongdoers to give up ill-gotten gains.

4.   First, as we noted in Leon, the exclusionary rule was historically designed as a means of deterring police misconduct, not mistakes by court employees.

5.   In addition, the firm did not have certain policies in place to deter misconduct.

6.   Some municipal-bond experts disagreed about whether the settlements were strong enough to deter misconduct by other municipalities .

7.   The exclusionary rule was historically designed as a means of deterring police misconduct, not mistakes by court employees.

8.   The tort reform legislation just vetoed by President Clinton would have imposed a cap on punitive damages that many critics thought too low to deter corporate misconduct.

9.   To deter misconduct, Parks said he has authorized the use of surprise inspections modeled after the U.S. military.

10.   But the Supreme Court said the civil penalty was intended to deter future misconduct, and therefore it would, in fact, benefit the environmental groups.