Orris Bowles v. Osmose Utilities Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that three weeks gave the defendant “adequate time to conform its defense to the plaintiff’s announced objectives”
• finding a discovery request into defendant’s net worth submitted three months before trial provided sufficient notice that plaintiff would seek punitive damages
• affirming award of punitive damages in a hostile work environment case pursuant to Rule 54(c) despite not being requested in the complaint
• award of punitive damages was proper when defendants were notified three weeks in advance of trial of plaintiff’s intention to seek punitive damages
• “[T]here have been cases in which punitive damages have been properly awarded when merited even in the absence of their being sought after or prayed for by a party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).