Douglas v. McCarty

OPINION

Lamont O. Douglas, a state prisoner, appeals from the district court’s orders granting remittitur on the award of damages on defendant McCarty’s counterclaim and denying Douglas’s Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 59(a) motion for a new trial. This case arose out of an altercation between Douglas and McCarty, a correctional officer, in which both Douglas and McCarty sustained injuries. After independently reviewing the record, we affirm the district court’s orders.

Douglas makes the following arguments: (1) the district court abused its discretion by conferring jurisdiction over McCarty’s counterclaim;…