Garth Brooks has won his case against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon.

Jurors agreed that he should get his $500,000 donation back and they decided to tack on another $500,000 in punitive damages. It’s because the hospital did not build a women’s center in memory of his mother. She had died of cancer in 1999.

Jury member Beverly Lacy told the Associated Press she voted in favor of Brooks because she thought the hospital went back on its word. As far as the punitive damages, she said: “We wanted to show them not to do that anymore to anyone else.”

Brooks said he thought he’d reached a deal in 2005 with the hospital. But he sued after learning it wanted to use the money for other construction projects.

“Obviously we are disappointed, particularly with the jury’s decision to award damages above and beyond the $500,000,” Integris spokesman Hardy Watkins said. “We’re just glad to see the case come to a resolution.”

Brooks called the jurors “heroes” and said he felt vindicated by their verdict.  “I no longer feel like I’m crazy,” he said.

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Garth Brooks isn’t just one of the biggest stars to walk the planet, he’s a man with deeply rooted beliefs and convictions. Instead of attending award shows, he and his wife Trisha Yearwood go to Haiti to volunteer. Garth sat down with Robin Leach to discuss his passionate feelings for the world around us and this country we call home.

I always quote from, you know there’s the Book of … and please this may sound sacrilegious, but it is meant in the sweetest way … there’s the Book of John, there’s the Book of Paul, and in our house we often speak of the Book of James Taylor or the Book of Aerosmith. They have great quotes in their words. Aerosmith has a wonderful line that says, “If you do what you’ve always did, then you will get what you’ve always got.”

It’s little things that you teach your kids like this. The quote I love to use for us as a global people is from a song of mine called “Thicker Than Blood,” and the line is, “Why can’t we see the walls we can’t see through?” That would be my thing to the whole world — the boundaries and the walls that are between us we have built ourselves.

Bob Dylan said it best when he accepted his Grammy there in New York. I was sitting in the second row when he said, “My dad always told me you can’t dig yourself in a hole so deep that you can’t pull yourself out of.” And I have to say if we are the ones building the walls, we can also be the ones to tear them down.

Robin Leach:  So true. You have a lot of life left to live, and having heard you just speak so sincerely about our world today, I have to ask if politics, be it independent or whatever, ever flash through your mind in terms of becoming a leader to right some of the wrongs of the world that we live in?

Yeah, sure! Everyone who’s ever been an employer or a boss is basically leading people. So the thought of leading people doesn’t scare me. What scares me is that our system is 200 years old, one of the youngest systems on the planet, and our system is the best system out there.

But my dad had a saying and always said, “Son, just because you’re the best of what’s out there doesn’t mean you’re worth a sh*t.” You’ve got to look in your own mirror and say, “Can our system be better? It might be the best one that’s out there, but can our system be better?” The answer is yes! If we cannot stop voting on what’s Democratic and what’s Republican instead of what’s right or wrong, we are doomed. Maybe it’ll be up to people like me to make it better.”

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