Chatman v. Lawlor

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that punitive damages are warranted when the defendant engaged in “outrageous conduct which is malicious, wanton, reckless, or in willful disregard for another’s rights”
• “Appellant’s failure to make this argument below precludes her from doing so on appeal.”
• proof of net worth required because plaintiffs’ counsel had asked that defendant whether she hadn’t “amassed a fairly large sum of money at this time” and whether her husband’s estate “was[n’t] in excess of ten million dollars when he passed [away]”
• “[A]rguments under each component of Rule 60(b) are separate and not interchangeable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).