WREN v. SPURLOCK

No. 83-2446.

798 F.2d 1313 (1986)

Lois E. WREN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. W. Nyles SPURLOCK, Defendant-Appellant, Hugh Simmons and Carbon County School District Number One, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore S. Halaby (Ronald M. Sandgrund and Cynthia M. Mardian with him on briefs), of Halaby & McCrea, Denver, Colo., for defendant-appellant.

Michael H. Gottesman (Robert M. Weinberg, of Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, D.C., and Patrick Hacker, Cheyenne, Wyo., with him on briefs), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before McKAY, McWILLIAMS, and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.


LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for plaintiff in a case arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Defendant W. Nyles Spurlock, a public school principal, challenges a jury award of $113,000 compensatory and $7,500 punitive damages to plaintiff Lois E. Wren, a teacher who contended at trial that Spurlock harassed her in retaliation for her exercise of First Amendment rights.

Spurlock alleges that the trial court committed several errors in the...

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