A federal jury in Atlanta -- sympathetic to a software firm that was unceremoniously tossed out of a national technology conference by the host firm -- has hit the conference host with $2.14 million in punitive damages for breach of contract and interfering with a contract. But the defense team expects the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month in a case about the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill to bolster their petition to toss out the award or reduce it significantly.
July 16, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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A federal jury in Atlanta — sympathetic to a software firm that was unceremoniously tossed out of a national technology conference by the host firm — has hit the conference host with $260,925 in combined compensatory damages and $2.14 million in punitive damages for breach of contract and interfering with a contract.
Finding that the defendant company, webMethods Inc., had acted in bad faith, the jury also awarded the plaintiff firm, GT Software Inc., $421,000 in legal fees.
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