Johnson v. Pankratz

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing court may treat directed verdict in bench trial as judgment on partial findings pursuant to Rule 52(c), analog to A.R.F.L.P 82(c)
• When the trial court acts as factfinder, “we may treat a directed verdict based on the insufficiency of the evidence as a judgment on partial findings pursuant to Rule 52(c).”
• “[A] battery entitling a plaintiff to compensatory damages may also entitle her to punitive damages. . . . [I]f malice is express or may be implied from the nature of the acts and the circumstances, punitive damages are possible.”
• explaining elements of a battery claim under Arizona law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).