Legal Opinion
Ronald Hankins v. William C. Finnel, State of Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 25, 1992No. 91-1299PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The State of Missouri and William Finnel appeal from a district court1 judgment enjoining the State of Missouri from attaching funds it had just paid Ronald Hankins to satisfy a judgment against its former employee, William Finnel. A jury had awarded Hankins $1 in nominal damages and $3,000 in punitive damages after finding that Finnel had sexually molested Han-kins during the time that Finnel taught school at the Missouri State Penitentiary and Hankins was an inmate there. Shortly after this court affirmed the judgment, the State brought an ex parte action in…
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