51.   But the agency has also complained that some juries have been too quick to make huge damage awards, particularly in emotion-laden cases involving small children.

52.   But the threat to the union posed by the damage award may not be as dire as it appears.

53.   By ending the litigation, cigarette producers will pare their legal costs and eliminate the risk of a crippling damage award.

54.   By ending the litigation, cigarette makers would pare their huge legal costs and eliminate the risk of a crippling damages award.

55.   Church advisers are fearful that without a reasonable cap for damage awards, the archdiocese could find itself in perilous fiscal condition.

56.   Consumer groups argue that damage awards must be large, not to reward trial lawyers but to deter corporations from continuing harmful practices.

57.   Damage awards against the city have skyrocketed in recent years.

58.   Damage awards exceeding that amount would be collectible in subsequent years.

59.   Defenders of punitive damages have their own list of products that have been improved after juries hit their makers with big punitive damage awards.

60.   Defense lawyers avoided what might have been a larger damage award in the courtroom of a judge they saw as biased against their case.