Sundholm v. City of Bettendorf

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that defendant does not need to raise a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge in a bench trial under Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 179(b)
• no actual damages were suffered so there was no error in refusing to submit claim for punitive damages; evidence did not otherwise show entitlement to punitive damages
• \Some actual damages are necessary to support a claim for punitive damages.\
• “Sufficiency of evidence may be challenged on appeal from judgment following a bench trial even though the point was not raised in trial court. . . . The rule is otherwise in jury trials.”
• “Some actual damages are necessary to support a claim for punitive damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).