Noyes

*187 MEMORANDUM *

A jury awarded appellant Lynn Noyes $647,174.00 in compensatory damages and $5.9 million in punitive damages in her action against Kelly Services. The district court reduced the jury’s punitive damage award from a ratio of 9.1-to-l to a ratio of 1-to-l. In her appeal, Noyes seeks a higher ratio of punitive damages, and in its cross-appeal, Kelly seeks punitive damages reduced or stricken in their entirety. Kelly further seeks a new trial on the merits, contending the district court abused its discretion in refusing to admit letters favorable to Kelly from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

The district court did not err in reducing the jury’s award of punitive damages. “[T]he most important indicium of the reasonableness of a punitive damages award is the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant’s conduct.” State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408, 419 , 123 S.Ct. 1513 , 155 L.Ed.2d 585 (2003) (quoting BMW of N. Am., Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559, 575 , 116 S.Ct. 1589 , 134 L.Ed.2d 809 (1996)). To determine reprehensibility, we consider whether the following aggravating factors are present: (1) “the harm caused was…