punitive damages not allowable even in case of deliberate theft of mechanical design trade secrets and trade secrets regarding financial details regarding costs, pricing, and bidding procedures that caused plaintiffs to be “severely damaged”
How later courts described this case
- punitive damages not allowable even in case of deliberate theft of mechanical design trade secrets and trade secrets regarding financial details regarding costs, pricing, and bidding procedures that caused plaintiffs to be “severely damaged”
- upholding preliminary injunction where plaintiffs costs, pricing and bidding procedures were trade secret
- requiring “malicious or wanton misconduct [to] justify an award of exemplary or punitive damages.”
- limiting punitives to compensate for expenses of litigation
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Murphy, J.
(concurring in the result). As the allegations in the complaint do not state a cause of action entitling the plaintiffs to punitive damages, I agree in the result stated in the opinion so far as it is based on that deficiency. Stavnezer v. Sage-Allen & Co., 146 Conn. 460, 461 , 152 A.2d 312 .