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90% Remittitur of $750,000 Strip Search Verdict Vacated; Plaintiffs Accept $440,385.08 on Remand
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2011
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2011, page 32
On June 30, 2010, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court had abused its discretion in reducing a $750,000 jury award to $75,000 in a case raising illegal strip search claims involving two retired school teachers who were arrested while protesting President George W. Bush and ...
Filed under:
Strip Searches,
Arrestee Searches,
Body Cavity Searches,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Appeals,
False Arrest.
Location:
Iowa.
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