Legal Opinion
Smith v. Des Moines Public School System
District Court, S.D. Iowa
Decided June 1, 2000No. 4:98-cv-90368PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
PRATT, District Judge.
Before the Court is Defendant’s Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law or, in the Alternative, for a New Trial filed April 3, 2000. Plaintiff filed his Resistance on April 14, 2000. Both parties have submitted post-trial briefs in support of their respective positions. The matter is submitted.
I. Factual and procedural background
Following a four-day trial in this defamation case, 1 a twelve person jury found that Defendant Des Moines Public School System (“the District”) committed slander per se against Plaintiff Ron Smith (“Smith”), and awarded Smith $250,000 in…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Ronald Keith Smith v. Des Moines Public SchoolsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001