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172747P.pdf   08/13/2018  Ecclesiastical Washington  v.  Larry Denney
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2747
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - St. Joseph   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Loken, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. In action alleging defendants were 
   deliberately indifferent to plaintiff's serious medical needs by failing 
   to take reasonable steps to abate the risk secondhand smoke posed to him 
   because of his asthma and other respiratory conditions, a jury found for 
   plaintiff and awarded him compensatory and punitive damages; held, 
   sufficient evidence exists to support the jury's verdict that defendants 
   violated plaintiff's Eighth Amendment rights and its award of compensatory 
   damages; however the award of punitive damages is not supported by 
   sufficient evidence that the defendants were motivated by evil motives or 
   intent or that they showed callous indifference to plaintiff's Eighth 
   Amendment rights, and the punitive damage award is set aside.