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032904P.pdf   07/23/2004  Chester E. Stogsdill  v.  Healthmark Partners
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-2904
   Western District of Arkansas   
   Civil case - torts. In nursing home malpractice case in which 
   defendant's nurse employees failed to alert plaintiff's decedent's treating 
   physician to a significant change in her bowel condition that led to fatal 
   septic shock, the evidence was sufficient under Arkansas law to support 
   an award of punitive damages; however, an award of $5 million in 
   punitive damages was excessive under Arkansas law and the Due Process 
   Clause; judgment would be conditionally affirmed, subject to the 
   plaintiffs' acceptance of a remittitur of the punitive damages award to $2 
   million. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Bowman and Wollman, Circuit Judges]