The History of Punitive Damages

In 1683, Sir Collinsworth of Wilkshire first noted the wisdom of punitive damages in his famous letter from the Emmelsworth Castle. The opinion has a literal reference to fucking homorabi's code for like stealing a goat from a free demand that's in there. So we have citations to Babylonia in this opinion. And as I'm reading it, I'm gearing up to be like, here's another case of the Supreme Court just basing his decision on all this bullshit that doesn't matter because it doesn't matter.