Legal Opinion
Parks v. City of Marshalltown
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 17, 1989No. 88-735PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
Parks was awarded punitive but not compensatory damages in this suit which arose after he was passed over for promotion as a city employee. We have no difficulty in deciding the punitive damages are inappropriate. More difficult is selecting which of the city’s theories should be the basis for rejecting them. We reverse.
Plaintiff Parks was employed as a truck driver with the street and alley department of the defendant City of Marshalltown. In 1985 the city created a new job classification, light equipment operator. Three positions in the classification were opened. The three…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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