Legal Opinion
Alfred Flowers, Cross-Appellant v. C. Paul Phelps v. Norman Johnson, David Blaylock and Robert McBride Cross-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 1992No. 90-3334PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Defendants-appellants Norman Johnson, David Blaylock, and Robert McBride, correctional officers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, appeal the judgment of the district court awarding a total of $3,000 in actual damages, $25,000 in punitive damages and $1,406.25 in attorney’s fees to Alfred Flowers, an inmate, as a result of injuries sustained by Flowers in a beating by the defendants. Flowers cross-appeals the district court’s reduction in attorney’s fees from the amount that he requested. Finding no error, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
When Flowers returned from a…
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