STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO. v. CAMPBELL et al.: certiorari to the supreme court of utah.

STATE Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell (Supreme Court case); UNITED States. Supreme Court; COMPENSATION (Law); DUE process of law; STATE Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.; CAMPBELL, Curtis B.; JUDICIAL opinions; KENNEDY, Anthony M., 1936-; SCALIA, Antonin, 1936-2016; THOMAS, Clarence, 1948-; GINSBURG, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020; ACTIONS & defenses (Law)

The article presents information on U.S. Supreme Court case State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell et al., case number 01-1289, argued on December 11, 2002 and decided on April 7, 2003. The article focuses on the decision of the jury to award Inez Preece Campbell and Curtis B. Campbell $145 million in punitive damages where full compensatory damages are $1 million, which in turn violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the judgment regarding the case, Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court in which Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg filed dissenting opinions.