Wolfson v. State Education Department

How courts have described this case

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• commission earned upon agreement on essential terms even if every term and condition in written contract not settled
• no punitive damages if the offending conduct merely constitutes breach of contract, but punitive damages are appropriate if offending conduct involves a high degree of bad faith
• punitive damages may be awarded where the defendant’s actions “involve that degree of bad faith evincing a ‘disingenuous or dishonest failure to carry out a contract’”
• “Suffice to say, ‘punitive damages are not available for mere breach of contract, for in such a case only a private wrong, and not a public right, is involved.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).