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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by tptacek on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:35PM (#33186881)
You can probably divide the number you're working from roughly in half, because probably half the damages in each case are for emotional damages, which don't compensate lost earnings but rather mitigate suffering already undergone or that will continue to be undergone. It's a distinction big enough that the IRS taxes those damages differently.
Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by thwayunion on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:39PM (#33186918)
Thanks. The point is that it's not at all hard to see how purely compensatory damages can get into the $64M range for two middle class or especially upper middle class people.