SWC Baseline & Crismon Investors, L.L.C. v. Augusta Ranch Ltd. Partnership

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a quitclaim deed “conveys any interest the grantor possesses in the property, but neither warrants nor claims that title is valid”
• vacating damages because, although the party’s disclosure statements referred to generally related things, it never revealed the amount of damages it would seek
• vacating damages award because the plaintiff disclosed it was seeking “rent” and the value of the “right to use” but not “that it would claim $765 a month in damages”
• “A quit claim deed conveys to the grantee no greater rights to the property conveyed than the grantor possessed . . . .”
• punitive damages may be awarded in higher amount against employer to encourage employer’s close control over employees
• where a party’s tactics, including 14 its assertion of a provocative counterclaim, “ignited litigation flames that scorched the 15 earth,” that party “ha[d] only itself to blame” for substantial fees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).