TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp.

TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 31, 1993 Decided June 25, 1993
Full case name	TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp.
Docket no.	92-479
Citations	509 U.S. 443 (more) 499 U.S. 1, 186 W. Va. 656, 413 S. E. 2d 897, 207 U.S. 73, 251 U.S. 63, 224 U.S. 270, 286, 238 U.S. 482, 212 U.S. 86, 111
Holding
The punitive damages awarded do not violate Due Process, and no test can be created to distinguish constitutionally acceptable or unacceptable damages that would fit every case.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Plurality	Stevens, joined by Rehnquist, Blackmun, Kennedy (in part)
Concurrence	Kennedy
Concurrence	Scalia, joined by Thomas
Dissent	O'Connor, joined by White, Souter (in part)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp., 509 U.S. 443 (1993), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which upheld the decision of the West Virginia state court awarding $19,000 in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages to the plaintiff. Although multiple justices recognized that the punitive damages were 526 times the compensatory damages, the Court held a "general concern of reasonableness" should guide courts in determining constitutionally acceptable damages under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.