Katt v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that under New York law, “in the absence of an explicit statutory provision to the contrary, even a municipal subsidiary corporation—like the municipality itself—is exempt from the assessment of punitive damages”
• expert permitted to testify about culture of police organization “in which police officers so value loyalty and mutual support that complaints or truthful testimony about misconduct by officers is strongly disfavored and met with ostracism or other retaliation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).