Lueter v. State of California

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• providing that damages in a 25 conversion action may not be “speculative, remote, imaginary, contingent, or merely possible”
• “ ‘Injury’ refers to the fact of harm suffered by the plaintiff due to the defendant’s conduct.”
• \[I]t would be ... anomalous to impose tort liability upon a negligent spoliator whose conduct is not near so egregious as that of an intentional spoliator.\
• where proximately-caused injury is not proven with reasonable certainty, plaintiff cannot recover
• “Whatever the proper meas ure of damages may be, in a given case, the recovery therefor is still subject to the fundamental rule that damages which are speculative... imaginary,... or merely possible cannot serve as a legal basis for recovery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).