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Retaliation Verdict Remanded for Damages

Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News December, 1999, page 26
Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Damages, Administrative Exhaustion. Location: Iowa.
The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a district court abused its discretion when it only awarded nominal damages to a prisoner who won a grievance retaliation claim against a jail guard. The court also notes cases on damage awards for wrongful segregation claims that will be ...

 

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