Legal Opinion
Michael Kemp, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. C.O. I Antonio Balboa, Appellee/cross-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 9, 1994No. 92-2038, 92-3451PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this case, a state prisoner filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988), accusing a prison guard of improperly confiscating his medication used to control his epilepsy, resulting in the prisoner’s having epileptic fits, which injured him. The jury found for the prisoner, but awarded him only nominal damages of $1.00 and punitive damages of the same amount. The prisoner challenges the award of only nominal damages as based upon inadmissible evidence, and the guard appeals from the award of attorney fees against him. We hold that the district court improperly…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- United States v. Verne Allen LyonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1977
- Williams v. ArmontroutCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
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