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$225,000 Jury Award in CDC Shooting Affirmed
Loaded on April 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1998, page 10
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit affirmed a jury award of $225,000 to a prisoner shot by guards, who then received inadequate medical care. The court rejected the defendants' argument that the eleventh amendment barred the damage award. Todd Ashker, a California prisoner at the Pelican Bay state ...
Filed under:
Cardiovascular,
Injury -- Misc.,
Shootings,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
State Law Claims,
Eleventh Amendment Immunity.
Location:
California.
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