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HARRIS v. COUNTY OF RACINE

Civ. A. No. 80-C-635.

512 F.Supp. 1273 (1981)

Sylvester HARRIS, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF RACINE and Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Wisconsin.

May 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Gossens, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff.

William F. Bock, Corp. Counsel, Racine, Wis., for County of Racine, defendant.

Stanley F. Schellinger, Milwaukee, Wis., for Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. of Wis., defendant.

REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.

This is an action in diversity brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332. It arises out of a judgment entered on March 14, 1978, in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action in favor of the plaintiff Sylvester Harris against Richard G. Harvey, Jr., then a county judge in Racine County, Wisconsin. The judgment was in the amount of $60,000 in compensatory damages, $200,000 in punitive damages, and $8,141.36 in costs. According to the complaint...

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