Petty v. Chrysler Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘When it comes to mental or emotional distress, the usual rule allows free recovery of emotional distress damages to any victim of a personal tort.’
• “When it comes to mental or emotional distress, the usual rule allows free recovery of emotional distress damages to any victim of a personal tort.”
• damages for mental suffering and distress could be expected and constitute actual damages in misappropriation-of-identity cases
• “When it comes to mental or emotional distress, the usual rule allows free recovery of emotional distress damages to any victim of a personal tort.”
• damages for mental suffering and distress could be expected and constitute actual damages in misappropriation-of-identity cases
• damages may not be predicated on mere speculation, hypothesis, conjecture, or whim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).