Legal Opinion
Hitt v. Connell
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2002No. 01-50117, 01-51010PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the jury found that Bexar County, Texas, Constable Jerry Connell fired deputy constable Harold Merritt Hitt in retaliation for Hitt’s exercise of his First Amendment right to freedom of association. The jury awarded Hitt $300,000 in compensatory damages, three-fourths of which was for non-pecuniary harms like “mental and emotional distress”. The district court subsequently awarded Hitt approximately $88,500 in attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Connell has appealed both the judgment and the award of attorney’s…
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