>Surely there's a number between $2800 quintillion and whatever low number actually gets awarded that would make sense.

But it wasn't a low award. Are you unaware, or are you thinking that awards above $1.4 billion is low?

>The actual damages awarded here is about $64 million per plaintiff, which is a lot, but not utterly absurd.

If we divided it among 1.4 billion people, it'd only be a buck each. How can it be high if it's just one dollarino per person?