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$450,000 Award in Sexual Assault Case Not Excessive
Loaded on April 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1998, page 20
The court of appeals for the second circuit held that a $250,000 compensatory damage award against a county jail security director for sexually abusing a prisoner was not excessive. However, the court held that the $500,000 punitive damage award was, reducing it to $200,000. The factual background of this case ...
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