Lane County v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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• holding certain intentional acts require no award of actual damages to support a punitive damage award
• punitive damages for breach of official duties even though only nominal damages awarded to county
• purpose of punitive damages is “not to compensate an injured party, but to give bad actors a legal spanking”
• punitive damages award must be supported by award of actual damages, except in exceptional cases, such as where jury finds a violation of a duty of trust by a public official

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).