Legal Opinion
Raymond Louis Bender v. James A. Brumley
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1993No. 91-4884PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON SUGGESTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
On petition for rehearing filed by defendants-appellees, we withdraw our previous opinion dated July 12, 1993, and substitute the following opinion in its place:
This 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case asserts the police used excessive force in dealing with a pre-trial detainee. The critical, narrow issue before us is whether it was reversible error for the district court to instruct the jury that it must find that Raymond Bender suffered “significant injury” before it could return a verdict in his favor. We conclude that the jury was…
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