Legal Opinion
Jimmie Lee Riley v. David T. Kurtz
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 17, 2004No. 02-1488PublishedCited by 167 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JORDAN, District Judge.
Daniel Manville, appointed counsel for the prisoner plaintiff, 1 obtained a jury verdict in favor of his client in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, for which he was awarded attorney’s fees as a prevailing party. The defendant appealed only the jury verdict. We overturned the jury verdict on one of the plaintiffs four claims and remanded the case for a new trial on the issue of punitive damages unless the plaintiff ae- cepted a remittitur. The plaintiff chose the remittitur, and an amended judgment was entered by the district court. Mr. Manville then filed an…
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