While you've got a good vantage from your high horse, take a look at Exxon. 5 billion dollars in punitive damages reduced to 500 million after 20 YEARS in your "justice" system. But they're Good Ol' Boys, they're different. While I'm happily amongst the first to bag the poms, the rhetoric coming out of the US over this issue is shamelessly hypocritical.
And lets not forget the whole Bhopal disaster, in which thousands of people died, yet the US refused to allow the CEO be touched by the Indians.