Stroud v. Denny's Restaurant, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding defendant liable for punitive damages for act of partner in the ordinary course of partnership business
• noting that Alaska case law generally follows the Restatement (Second) of Agency but has eliminated the requirement in subsection (c) that the employee be managerial
• employer liable for employee’s malicious prosecution of customer because employee’s action was within the scope of employment
• Oregon extends liability to acts of even “menial” employees, not just “managerial” employees
• respondeat superior analysis is made as of time injury occurred
• respondeat superior analysis is made as of time injury occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).