Wyckoff Imaging Servs., P.C. v. Blutreich

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that \punitive damages are not available where there has been no `award' of actual damages\
• holding that “punitive damages are not available where there has been no ‘award’ of actual damages” (emphasis added)
• disallowing punitive damages where there has been no award of actual or compensatory damages; saying that it is not enough that actual damages may have been suffered or sustained
• punitive damages may not be awarded in the absence of an award for actual damages
• \A general and perhaps almost universally accepted rule is that punitive damages cannot be awarded in the absence of actual damage.\
• “[W]here there exists a ‘cause of action,’ but the action is not one for which the recovery of compensatory damages is justified, punitive damages cannot be awarded.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).