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Parent Document: Patrick Blanks v. Fluor Corporation, 450 S.W.3d 308 (2014)
Jurisdiction: Missouri (state)
Effective Date: 2014-09-16
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2733178/patrick-blanks-v-fluor-corporation/ ↗

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   Defendants also cite several out-of-state cases holding that it is reversible error to inform juries about the
allocation of a portion of punitive-damage awards to the state. Honeywell v. Sterling Furniture Co., 797
P.2d 1019 (Ore. 1990)(holding trial court erred in instructing jury as to how any award of punitive damages
would be distributed); Ford v. Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co., 476 S.E.2d 565 (Ga. 1996)(holding trial court
erred in instructing the jury that a portion of any punitive damages awarded would go to state treasury).
Defendants also cite to In re Exxon Valdez, 229 F.3d 790, 798 (9th Cir. 2000), for the proposition that “a
jury deliberating on the amount of a damages award is not to consider where the funds that constitute that
award will come from, or where they will end up.” Again, these are not Missouri cases and thus are not
binding precedent. Henderson is the only Missouri case cited by defendants or discovered by us that deals
specifically with informing the jury about the fund.

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