51.   The high court currently is considering a separate dispute that could provide guidelines for punitive damage awards.

52.   The House on Thursday failed to override a presidential veto of a bill that would have limited punitive damage awards in lawsuits involving faulty products.

53.   The legislation would protect manufacuturers of raw materials used in medical devices from enormous punitive damage awards.

54.   The industry is now facing what could be a record-setting punitive damage award.

55.   The note came in the second day of punitive damage deliberations in Greensboro, North Carolina.

56.   The outspoken attorney claims that the council condoned police brutality by routinely paying punitive damage awards without a careful examination of each case.

57.   The question of whether punitive damage judgments stemming from fraud are dischargeable in a bankruptcy proceeding has divided the lower courts for years.

58.   The prospect of any legislation that might blunt the effects of the anticipated punitive damage award in the Florida case sent tobacco stocks up sharply on Wall Street Thursday.

59.   The Supreme Court will decide whether the government can collect income taxes on punitive damage awards in personal injury lawsuits.

60.   The Senate scaled down its legal reform measure to place punitive damage caps only on product liability cases, not on all civil cases as the House did.