Legal Opinion
Finch v. City of Vernon
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 26, 1988No. 87-3751PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BY THE COURT:
The district court consolidated for trial two civil rights actions involving several common defendants, among them the City of Vernon, Florida, J.C. Armstrong, Jr., and Coleman Armstrong. On October 22, 1986, the jury returned a verdict for both plaintiffs, Leonard Finch and Rupert Red-dick. The district court, however, instructed the clerk of court not to enter judgments for the plaintiffs until the court had ruled on the defendants’ motions under Fed.R.Civ.P. 50(b) for judgments notwithstanding the verdict.
On October 13, 1987, the district court entered an order granting in…
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