In response to judges and juries which award high punitive damages verdicts, the Supreme Court of the United States has made several decisions which limit awards of punitive damages through the due process of law clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
然而，為了回應做出高額懲罰性損害賠償金判決的法官與陪審團，美國最高法院做出了幾項決定，依循美國憲法第五和第十四修正案的正當程序條款限制了懲罰性損害賠償的金額。