victims of unfair discrimination shall be awarded a monetary amount to compensate them for their injury, however, this amount shall not exceed three times the amount of actual damages sustained by the victim. The trial court is required to make a determination as to the victim’s actual damages, as the trial court did here, and then, determine the additional amount the discrimination victim must receive in damages in order to be fully compensated for the injury sustained. This, the trial court did not do. These additional damages cannot be a guess or a number pulled out of the air any more than a court cannot award damages in an ordinary tort or contract claim without some articulated basis for the damage award. See, e.g., Leoni v. Bemis Co., Inc., 255 N.W.2d 824, 826 (Minn.1977) (<HOLDING>). In the absence of specific findings as to the
holding that punitive damages are not recoverable under viwda holding that punitive damages are recoverable in a claim for retaliation under the flsa holding that nominal damages award was appropriate where the evidence supporting the damages was speculative holding attorneys fees not generally recoverable unless party prevails under cause of action for which attorneys fees are recoverable and damages are recovered holding that damages which are speculative remote or conjectural are not recoverable and requiring proof of a reasonable basis upon which to approximate damages award