Legal Opinion
Jeffrey Kemezy v. James Peters
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 5, 1996No. 95-1860, 95-1904, and 95-2121PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Jeffrey Kemezy sued a Muncie, Indiana policeman named James Peters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Peters had wantonly beaten him with the officer’s nightstick in an altercation in a bowling alley where Peters was moonlighting as a security guard. The jury awarded Kemezy $10,000 in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages. Peters’ appeal challenges only the award of punitive damages, and that on the narrowest of grounds: that it was the plaintiffs burden to introduce evidence concerning the defendant’s net worth for purposes of equipping the jury with…
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