5. The Mathiases stayed at a Chicago-area Motel 6. They were bitten by bedbugs,

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5. The Mathiases stayed at a Chicago-area Motel 6. They were bitten by bedbugs, and when they sued, they discovered the motel's exterminator had found bedbugs two years earlier and recommended the rooms be sprayed. The motel refused, as it did the next year. Hotel clerks reported that guests were complaining there were ticks and bugs in the rooms and that they were being bitten. Finally, the motel des- ignated some rooms as not rentable until they were sprayed. Despite this designa- tion, the Mathiases were rented an infested room, as were several other guests. The Mathiases sued for punitive damages. Should they be awarded? Why or why not?

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The answer is yes, They ought to be granted on the grounds that: compensatory damages are hard to decide on account of acts that dispense to a great extent hurts related to dignity, on the grounds that these damages would be too slight to give the casualty an incentive to sue and he may choose rather to react with violence, and in light of the fact that to confine the plaintiff to this type pf damages would empower the defendant to confer the offensive act.

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