Jones v. Malaco Music

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• finding that “[p]unitive damages may be awarded only when the trier of fact is persuaded by a preponderance of the evidence that defendant’s actions were wanton, malicious[,] or fraudulent in nature.”
• determining that “[t]o a legal certainty, defendant’s act of not sending plaintiff his royalty check of $896.39 . . . does not justify a damage claim of the jurisdictional minimum of $50,000,” where the plaintiff also sought noneconomic damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).