Boise Dodge, Inc. v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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• affirming punitive damage award against auto dealer for misrepresentations about auto
• affirming punitive damage award against auto dealer for misrepresentations about auto
• under Idaho law, “punitive damages may be assessed in contract actions where there is fraud, malice, oppression or other sufficient reason for doing so”
• where acts of wrongdoer are such as to indicate heedless disregard of the consequences
• car dealership admitted to grossly misrepresenting the amount of mileage on demonstrator car in a sale, by turning back odometer; held sufficient evidence of willful fraud to support punitive damages award by jury
• 36 to 1 ratio reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).