Robles v. Autozone
This appeal is another phase of the effort by Joaquin B. Robles, plaintiff, appellant and respondent, to obtain an award of punitive damages in this false imprisonment action against his former employer, defendant, respondent and appellant, AutoZone, Inc. (AutoZone). In the first trial in this action, Robles obtained a jury verdict in his favor for compensatory damages for false imprisonment. That jury found AutoZone's employee, Octavio Jara (Jara), acting within the course and scope of his employment, had falsely imprisoned Robles in the course of an internal company loss prevention investigation, and it awarded Robles $73,150. However, the trial court granted a nonsuit on the request for punitive damages, and Robles appealed.
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