O'Connor v. Harms

How courts have described this case

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

• holding there can be no punitive damage award in the absence of an actual damage award or violation of a legal right
• “punitive or exemplary damages will not be awarded unless there is an independent cause of action for compensatory damages”
• “punitive or exemplary damages will not be awarded unless there is an independent cause of action for compensatory damages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).