Barth v. Canyon County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that an award of treble damages was not a penalty when a particular statute did not refer to “penalty” in its title or body
• explaining that “[w]hen a statute allows an award beyond actual damages, [a court] must decide whether the award is intended to be a penalty or compensation”
• “In the cases where treble damages are a penalty, the Court insists that the plaintiff show that the defendant acted maliciously, wantonly, or oppressively (i.e., in bad faith) before the Court will award treble damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).