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163451P.pdf 10/27/2017 S.M. v. Lincoln County, Missouri
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3451
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Murphy and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. For the court's prior opinion in the matter,
see S.M. v. Krigbaum, 808 F.3d 335 (8th Cir. 2015). There was sufficient
evidence to support the jury's finding that defendant Lincoln County was
deliberately indifferent to the obvious risk that its failure to supervise
a lieutenant in its Sheriff's Department would result in violation of
plaintiffs' rights;where defendant failed to object to the district
court's verdict director, the only issue before this court is whether the
trial evidence permitted a reasonable jury to find for the plaintiffs on
the elements of the claim as instructed; plaintiffs' evidence of the
sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of the lieutenant was sufficient
to support the award of compensatory damages.