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$13,501 Jury Award in Seg Case Affirmed; New Trial Denied

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News September, 1998, page 20
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Damages. Location: Pennsylvania.
A federal district court in Pennsylvania denied defendants' motion for a new trial or to remit a jury's damage award of $13,501 to a wrongfully segregated prisoner. Jerry Wilson, a federal prisoner awaiting sentencing at a city jail, was attacked by his cellmate Paul Murphy after guards searched their cell ...

 

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