31.   Recently, juries awarded damages to two smokers, though the cases still must go through the appeal process.

32.   Punitive damages are awarded by juries on top of actual damages to express outrage or punish defendants for flagrant misconduct.

33.   Punitive damages may be awarded by juries in especially outrageous circumstances.

34.   Some council members are angry that the jury awarded the family so much even though the LAPD found the officers complied with the departement policy.

35.   The case was the first one in which a jury awarded damages against a cigarette maker, although the award was overturned.

36.   The California verdict was only the fourth time in more than a decade that a jury has awarded damages in tobacco case brought by an individual smoker.

37.   The case was also unusual because a jury awarded damages both for retaliation by university officials and for fraud.

38.   The jury awarded top prizes to both Ms. Hadid and Grumbach.

39.   The jury had awarded several million dollars in damages.

40.   The jury also awarded a special prize for a Peter Manuira documentary on Sir Georg Solti, who died in September.