Mealey's (October 20, 2022, 1:58 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a court’s judgment reducing a punitive damages award to plaintiffs who individually sued an automaker for installing emissions-cheating devices on their vehicles, finding that the court erred by reducing the jury’s punitive damages awards based in part on the disparity between the awards and the maximum civil penalties the automaker would face for violations of California’s unfair competition law (UCL)....