[aruanan]

"A judge would have no trouble knocking off a zero," said David Levine, who teaches civil procedure and remedies at Hastings College of the Law. "I see no prospect at all that this $28 billion award is going to hold up."

Oh, yeah, like 2.8 billion is reasonable.

[Conagher]

Reasonable is in the eye of the beholder. It should speak volumes about the jurors and the lawyers that chose them. I doubt either group (especially the jury) had any concept of what one billion is, much less what 28 billion is.

All I know is that I'd love to be the attorney that won that case. Screw principles, cut me my damned check!