Timmons v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HEYBURN, District Judge.

The Court now discusses Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs Claim for Punitive Damages and its subsequent motion for directed verdict on the issue of punitive damages. 1 The first motion requires the Court to determine whether the Kentucky Civil Rights Act bars a plaintiff from seeking punitive damages. Because no Kentucky case directly answers this question, the Court must predict how the Kentucky courts would resolve the question. See Hines v. Joy Mfg. Co., 850 F.2d 1146, 1150 (6th Cir.1988). Though the Court concludes that Plaintiff may…