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Article #102963Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
From: tp1... Timo Pietil
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 00:00
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Donald DiPaula (dip...@access5.digex.net) wrote: : In article <502hii$2...@gondor.sdsu.edu>, : Dennis W. Mattison <matt...@rohan.sdsu.edu> wrote: : !Kevin Leslie Schaper (ksch...@darkwing.uoregon.edu) wrote: : what does all this mean? i don't necessarily think that being burned is worth : millions of dollars, BUT-- the award was mostly punitive damages, in response : to macdonald's demonstrated history of ignoring a danger in their product. I have never understood the American system of "punitive" damages? Why they are paid to person filing the lawsuit? I can understand the paying of the damages, but if it is necessery to punish someone why should someone get rich from it? Why the same amout cound't be paid as fine to community, so that the whole society might get something good about it, and the neglient company would be punished? : -D- : --
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From: tp1...@vuokko.uta.fi (Timo Pietil{)
Subject: Re: Coffee cup holder - CD drive UL?
Date: 1996/08/30
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