Di Giovanni v. Pessel

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• noting punitive damages may be justified by defendant's \conscious and deliberate disregard of the interests of others\
• noting punitive damages may be justified by defendant’s “conscious and deliberate disregard of the interests of others”
• the defendant-doctor’s failure to sign a certificate for confinement before a notary resulting in false imprisonment of the plaintiff lacked not only the prerequisite actual malice but failed even to equal wanton and reckless disregard
• the defendant-doctor's failure to sign a certificate for confinement before a notary resulting in false imprisonment of the plaintiff lacked not only the prerequisite actual malice but failed even to equal wanton and reckless disregard
• “An act to give rise to punitive damages must be actuated by (1) actual malice, which is nothing more or less than intentional wrongdoing — an evil-minded act, or (2) an act accompanied by wanton and wilful disregard of the rights of another.”

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