Some insight from Blum on what the jury was planning to award in the Skaggs trial.
December 20, 2025
Some insight from Blum on what the jury was planning to award in the Skaggs trial.
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Based on his article in the Athletic, comparative fault was all over the place too. At least 1 only had Skaggs at 15% fault, one had it at 50/50, and another only had the team at 15% fault.
It’s really hard to say where the jury would have ultimately landed.
Just the fact that the jury was even contemplating any punitive damages at all shows exactly how they felt about the Angels attempts to deflect blame elsewhere.
Here are the jury instructions on punitive damages and it’s a very high burden to meet.
To be awarded punitive damages in California, Civil Code 3294 requires you to demonstrate with clear and convincing evidence that the one who caused your injuries did so by acting with oppression, fraud, or malice.
“Malice” means:
Conduct that is intended by the defendant to cause injury to you, or
Despicable conduct carried out by the defendant with a willful and conscious disregard for the rights or safety of others.
The purpose of punitive damages is to punish defendants in a personal injury lawsuit and to deter others from committing the same wrongs.
There’s also such a thing as an appeal, where there is no jury. Jury awards get minimized frequently.
Damn drug addicts getting their family paid.
Fuck Arte and the machine of inept management he allowed for years. Turns a blind eye to employees dealing drugs to players. As a person who is helping family members overcome addiction over them likely dying…. it makes me so sick that people are trying to say its all on skaggs etc or “he chose to do that and xyz” addiction is crazy thing and very hard to overcome. When your employer has a guy on the team that gives you the drugs that is so fucked up and Arte should be liable AND THE LEAGUE SHOULD INTERVENE IF THEYRE HOLDING PLAYERS OUT OF HOF FOR USE OF ANOTHER DRUG
5 comments
Based on his article in the Athletic, comparative fault was all over the place too. At least 1 only had Skaggs at 15% fault, one had it at 50/50, and another only had the team at 15% fault.
It’s really hard to say where the jury would have ultimately landed.
Just the fact that the jury was even contemplating any punitive damages at all shows exactly how they felt about the Angels attempts to deflect blame elsewhere.
Here are the jury instructions on punitive damages and it’s a very high burden to meet.
To be awarded punitive damages in California, Civil Code 3294 requires you to demonstrate with clear and convincing evidence that the one who caused your injuries did so by acting with oppression, fraud, or malice.
“Malice” means:
Conduct that is intended by the defendant to cause injury to you, or
Despicable conduct carried out by the defendant with a willful and conscious disregard for the rights or safety of others.
The purpose of punitive damages is to punish defendants in a personal injury lawsuit and to deter others from committing the same wrongs.
https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/3900/3940/
There’s also such a thing as an appeal, where there is no jury. Jury awards get minimized frequently.
Damn drug addicts getting their family paid.
Fuck Arte and the machine of inept management he allowed for years. Turns a blind eye to employees dealing drugs to players. As a person who is helping family members overcome addiction over them likely dying…. it makes me so sick that people are trying to say its all on skaggs etc or “he chose to do that and xyz” addiction is crazy thing and very hard to overcome. When your employer has a guy on the team that gives you the drugs that is so fucked up and Arte should be liable AND THE LEAGUE SHOULD INTERVENE IF THEYRE HOLDING PLAYERS OUT OF HOF FOR USE OF ANOTHER DRUG