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Edward A. Ganey v. Ralph D. Edwards Walter L. Kautzky, Sam P. Garrison Charles E. Smith Daniel G. Durham
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But see Lancaster v. Rodriguez, 701 F.2d 864 (10th Cir.) (per curiam), cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1136 , 103 S.Ct. 3121 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1373 (1983) (Actual injury must be proven to recover compensatory damages when prisoner's substantive Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment is violated); Familias Unidas v. Briscoe, 619 F.2d 391 (5th Cir.1980) (Actual injury must be proven to recover compensatory damages when a plaintiff's First Amendment rights have been violated). 12 The right of access to the justice system may or may not be such a fundamental substantive due process …
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BRANNIAN v. City of San Diego
See also Lancaster v. Rodriguez, 701 F.2d 864, 866 (10th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1136 , 103 S.Ct. 3121 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1373 (1983) (applying the Piphus rule in an Eighth Amendment context and expressly rejecting any procedural rights/substantive rights distinction as unhelpful and contrary to the underlying rationale); Farrar v. Cain, 756 F.2d 1148, 1152 (5th Cir.1985) (nominal damages for violation of “civil rights”); Smith v. Coughlin, 748 F.2d 783, 789 (2d Cir.1984) (nominal damages for violation of Sixth Amendment rights); Kincaid v. Rusk, 670 F.2d 737, 746 (7th Cir.1982) (award…
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Cowans v. Wyrick
Id.; see, e.g., Lancaster v. Rodriguez, 701 F.2d 864, 866 (10th Cir.) (per curiam) (nominal damages awarded for eighth amendment violation where no proof of actual injury), cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1156 , 103 S.Ct. 3121 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1373 (1983); see generally Restatement (Second) of Torts § 907 comment c (1979).
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Cowans v. Wyrick
Id.; see, e.g., Lancaster v. Rodriguez, 701 F.2d 864, 866 (10th Cir.) (per curiam) (nominal damages awarded for eighth amendment violation where no proof of actual injury), cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1136 , 103 S.Ct. 3121 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1373 (1983); see generally Restatement (Second) of Torts Sec. 907 comment c (1979). 43 In other cases, however, an award of nominal damages would in itself serve both to recognize and vindicate "the importance to organized society that those [constitutional] rights be scrupulously observed." Carey v. Piphus, 435 U.S. at 266 , 98 S.Ct. at 1053 .
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Ledford v. Gibson
Compare Lancaster v. Rodriguez, 701 F.2d 864 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 462 U.S. 1136 , 103 S.Ct. 3121 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1373 (1983) (actual injury must be proven to recover compensatory damages when prisoner’s substantive Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment is violated) with Parrish v. Johnson, 800 F.2d 600, 610-11 (6th Cir.1986) (compensatory damages may be presumed for some violations of a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights, such as an assault, absent proof of actual injury).
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Wargo
v.
Attorney General of New Mexico
v.
Attorney General of New Mexico
No. 82-6634.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Jun 20, 1983.
Published
C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied.