Legal Opinion
Kahle v. Leonard
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 27, 2009No. 08-1647, 08-2578PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENTON, Circuit Judge.
Mindy Kahle sued Jermaine Leonard (and others) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A jury found Leonard liable, awarding damages. Leonard appeals Batson and evidentiary rulings, jury instructions, and the portion of the judgment (one percent) applied to Kahle’s attorneys’ fees. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms the verdict but remands for redetermination of the percentage of damages applied to attorneys’ fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2).
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On the night of December 14, 2002, Kahle was a pretrial detainee in the Pennington County Jail in South Dakota.…
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