Sublette v. Servel, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing a district court award for punitive damages against a municipality but demonstrating the type of malicious strip search case where punitive damages should be available
• “Punitive damages can ensure that a wrongdoer bears all the costs of its actions, and is thus appropriately deterred from causing harm, in those categories of cases in which compensatory damages alone result in systematic under-assessment of costs, and hence in systematic underdeterrence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).