Court Opinion

ID: 9710830
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:18:41.134388+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:00.154589
License: Public Domain

N. PATRICK CROOKS, J.

(concurring).

¶ 65. I join the majority opinion, except for paragraphs 9 and 59. In the present case, the majority correctly interprets Wis. Stat. § 895.85(3) and correctly concludes that there was sufficient evidence to present the punitive damages issue to the jury. However, the majority then declines to address the constitutionality of the $94 million punitive damages award. Majority op., ¶¶ 9, 57. I would review the punitive damages award, using the factors articulated by this court in Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Tower Insurance Co., 2003 WI 46, 261 Wis. 2d 333, 661 N.W.2d 789, and by the United *37States Supreme Court in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003) and BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 (1996).
¶ 66. For the above stated reason, I respectfully concur.