Soltys v. Costello

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court’s instructing the jury to “disregard issues for which objections had been sustained … negated any possible prejudice”
• suggesting that the Seventh Circuit would conclude that punitive damages are not special damages
• suggesting that the Seventh Circuit would conclude that punitive damages are not special damages
• affirming a denial of a motion to amend filed 14 months after the complaint and two weeks before trial
• deeming erroneous the - 13 - “assumption that a prayer for punitive damages had to appear in the complaint in order to sustain an award of such damages.”
• affirming denial of leave to amend where amendment would have delayed trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).