Weider v. Hoffman

How courts have described this case

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• awarding nominal damages of $1 where the jury awarded legally improper damages
• it is the award of actual damages, and not its showing, which determines whether a verdict for punitive damages will stand
• it is the award of actual damages, and not its showing, which determines whether a verdict for punitive damages will stand
• where the trial judge in a libel case directed the entry of a verdict in the amount of $1.00 nominal damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).