Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Lee County Board of Supervisors
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided June 18, 1998No. CIV. A. 96-264-BPublished
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JONES, District Judge.
In this opinion and order, I resolve certain post-judgment motions by the defendant, following a jury trial and final judgment granting equitable relief and compensatory damages to the plaintiff.
I. Background.
The plaintiff, Joseph Michael Donovan Cooper, a public employee, claimed that the defendant, Lee County Board of Supervisors, the governing body of Lee County, Virginia, violated his constitutional rights by voting to abolish his health, life insurance, and retirement benefits. 1 At'trial, a jury found by its verdict that Cooper had proved by a…
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