Court Opinion

ID: 9490611
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:49:15.16466+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:12.678047
License: Public Domain

BEAM, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur in the result reached by the court and in the opinion of the court except that I do not agree that the evidence was sufficient to submit the issue of punitive damages to the jury. Thus, any award for punitive damages was error. Since, as noted by the court, “[i]t is not possible to ascertain what portion of the $300,000 [award] is attributable to compensatory or punitive damages,” infra at 33,1 would assume, for purposes of analysis, that the entire amount was for compensatory purposes. Accordingly, my bottom line of damages is the same as that of the court.