Legal Opinion
Villanueva v. George
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1981No. 80-1085PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge, with whom LAY, Chief Judge, BRIGHT, STEPHENSON, McMILLIAN and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, join.
Robert Villanueva brought this action for civil damages under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that five correctional officers had deprived him of his civil rights when he was a pretrial detainee at the St. Louis County Adult Correctional Institution (Gumbo). At the close of plaintiff’s evidence, the district court granted the defendants’ motions for directed verdict on the grounds that there was no evidence that defendants had violated Villanueva’s civil or constitutional…
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