Irvin
Southern Union Co. v. Irvin
Opinion
Opinion
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
SOUTHERN UNION COMPANY, No. 06-17347 Plaintiff-Appellee, v. D.C. No.
CV-99-01294-ROS
JAMES M. IRVIN,
ORDER
Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Roslyn O. Silver, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted November 26, 2007*
Filed November 7, 2008
Before: Stephen Reinhardt, John T. Noonan, and Ferdinand F. Fernandez, Circuit Judges.
Order; Concurrence by Judge Reinhardt; Dissent by Judge Noonan
COUNSEL
Robert A. Mandel, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Phoenix, Ari- zona, for the defendant-appellant.
Tom Q. Ferguson, Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, L.L.P., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the plaintiff-appellee.
*The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
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ORDER
The jury in this case awarded $975,181 in compensatory damages to Southern Union Company, of which it assessed forty percent or $395,072.38 against James M. Irvin, and went on to assess an additional $60,000,000 of punitive damages…