People of Michigan v. Deena Louise Rodriguez

How courts have described this case

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

• disapproving of punitive damages on the ground that compensatory damages make the plaintiffs “entirely whole” and “[s]urely the public can have no interest in exacting the pound of flesh”
• “[E]very actual loss, and some of which frequently border on the imaginary, are paid for under the rule of compensatory damages. The plaintiff is made entirely whole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).