Legal Opinion
Young v. Bd. of Supervisors of Humphreys Cnty.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 21, 2019No. 18-60618PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Carl Young sued the Board of Supervisors of Humphreys County, Mississippi ("the Board"), and its president under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , contending that they had unlawfully deprived him of the use of several of his properties. A jury returned a verdict for Young, and the district court denied the Board's motion for judgment as a matter of law ("JMOL") or a new trial. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
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Young bought three empty houses on September 2, 2015, and retained a local contractor eight days later to clean and renovate them. On September 18, Charles Edwards,…
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