Kory v. McCluney

BY Judge Paul M. Peatross, JR.

This matter comes before the Court on the post-trial motions of Defendants Wesley H. McCluney, Bradley Clark Kintz, and Richard W. Smith and the separate post-trial motions of Defendant Harrison Kerr Tigrett. In this case, Plaintiff Alexander R. Kory brought an action at law for damages stemming from an assault and battery that occurred on November 21,1997, at the University of Virginia. After a two-day trial, the jury returned a verdict awarding Kory $ 120,000 in compensatory damages and $3 80,000 in punitive damages. Subsequently, Defendants McCluney, Kintz,…