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Fifth Circuit Upholds $2.85 Million Award in Suit over Jail Prisoner’s Death
by Matt Clarke
On November 29, 2016, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury award of $1.5 million for pain and suffering and $917,000 for wrongful death in a lawsuit brought by survivors of a prisoner who died after being held for four days in an observation cell ...
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