The state Supreme Court has been asked to reinstate a $166 million verdict against the state in the case of a child severely abused by his father after child-welfare authorities left him in the father’s custody.

The verdict was awarded in 2013 in the case of Jadiel Velesquez, who, at the age of 4 months, was left blind and cognitively disabled when his father shook him with great force to stop him from crying.