Business Communications, Inc. v. Banks

¶ 65. While I concur with the result reached by the majority on issue two, I must dissent from the majority’s decision to reverse the circuit court’s judgment on issue one.

¶ 66. The jury awarded BCI $1,000 in compensatory damages for breach of the BPA without any proof that BCI suffered any cognizable harm from Banks’s employment with Venture or from Banks’s retention of certain property items, all of which were returned to BCI,2 or from Banks’s disclosure of so-called confidential information — i.e., the BPA, itself, and the industry-standard, boilerplate language contained therein.3

¶ 67. In…