Legal Opinion
Federal Prescription Service, Inc. v. Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 18, 1975No. Nos. 74-1451, 74-1469PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.
This case grows out of a prolonged and acrimonious labor dispute. In the court below, the plaintiff Company, Federal Prescription Service, Inc., hereafter Federal, obtained a jury award of $18,-841.95, compensatory damages, and $32,-500 punitive damages against the defendant Unions, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, hereafter International, and its Local P-1149. The individual defendants joined in the action were acquitted. The lower court, on motion, struck the punitive award, denied Federal its costs, requiring each…
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