Legal Opinion
Donald R. Parrett v. City of Connersville, Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 1984No. 83-1971PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Donald Parrett, the plaintiff in this suit for damages under section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, now 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleges that the defendants, an Indiana town (population 21,000) and its principal officials, took away his job as a policeman in circumstances that amounted to a deprivation of property without due process of law, thus violating the Fourteenth Amendment. A jury awarded him $320,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages that the judge reduced to $68,000. The defendants, on appeal, argue principally that they did not take away Parrett’s…
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3Cited by175 opinions
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