the purposes of the Railway Labor Act, recognizing that the overarching legislative goal is to facilitate collective bargaining and to achieve industrial peace.” International Bhd. of Elec. Workers v. Foust, 442 U.S. 42, 47, 99 S.Ct. 2121, 2125, 60 L.Ed.2d 698 (1979). In Foust, the Court reversed an award of punitive damages against a union that had breached its duty of fair representation. The Court agreed that punitive damages would induce unions to represent members fairly, but decided that such awards could impair unions’ financial stability and thereby upset the careful balance of interests necessary to achieve the purposes of the RLA. Id., 442 U.S. at 48, 50-51, 99 S.Ct. at 2125, 2127. See also Brotherhood of Ry. Carmen v. Delpro Co., 579 F.Supp. 1332, 1335-36 (D.Del.1984) (<HOLDING>). With this general background in mind, we now
holding that award of punitive damages against carrier would undermine purposes of rla holding that evidence of a defendants financial condition is a prerequisite to an award of punitive damages holding that conduct must be beyond the fraud which supported compensatory damages to award punitive damages holding a court may not award punitive damages holding that proportionality is not the touchstone for a punitive damages award