'The cost would be grossly excessive when compared to any environmental benefit.'

A defense lawyer said the city would seek to have the verdict set aside as "grossly excessive."

"The disparity strongly suggests that the jury's $675,000 award is arbitrary and grossly excessive."

By any measure, this award is grossly excessive and counterproductive.

"Such payment is grossly excessive in a time when the state and local districts are facing serious fiscal constraints," he said.

"At long last, the Supreme Court has struck down a punitive damage's case because the award was grossly excessive."

That does address itself to a real evil, the grossly excessive creation of credit, but not in the best way.

The absence of 2%-3% annual economic growth means that grossly excessive unemployment figures can no longer be artificially covered up.

Judge Holland upheld it in 1995, saying that it was not "grossly excessive."

Judge Weinstein said the fees and those already received by plaintiffs' lawyers were "grossly excessive."