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083766P.pdf 12/16/2009 Walter Haynes v. Patrick L. Stephenson
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-3766
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Melloy and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. District court did not err in finding
plaintiff had made a prima facie case of retaliatory discipline; award of
punitive damages affirmed as the evidence supported the finding that
defendant's decision to file an untrue disciplinary report in deliberate
disregard of prison regulations was reprehensible conduct; amount of the
award did not violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.