Super Valu Stores, Inc. v. Peterson

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• noting that, under state law, the anticipated profits of a new business are recoverable if proven with reasonable certainty
• upholding $5 million verdict for breach of contract to open grocery store where plaintiff projected profits of $20 million over fifteen years and defendant conceded that statistical evaluation of future profit, which it had itself generated, was reliable
• upholding lost profits award in breach of contract action where plaintiff presented statistical evaluation of future profit in support of lost profits claim and where defendant had compiled evaluation itself and deemed it reliable
• upholding a general verdict for an amount obviously in excess of nominal damages where the jury heard evidence that the plaintiff had suffered injury from the defendant's misrepresentation by retiring from his job to take an employment opportunity that never came to fruition

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