more rollback of ADA

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 01:06 PM 6/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Posted on Mon, Jun. 17, 2002
>
>Court Rules on Disabilities Law
>GINA HOLLAND
>Associated Press Writer
>
>Government agencies can be forced to pay actual damages but not punitive 
>damages for
>violating a landmark disabilities law, the court ruled.

Why is punitive damages paid by government agencies a good thing?  It is 
invariably a transfer of public tax monies to private pockets.  Very much 
different from punitive damages paid by private parties, which usually have 
a re-distributive aspect.

wojtek