DAMYN v. BRIERTON

No. 86-3770.

833 F.2d 1454 (1987)

Charles A. DAMYN, # 044604, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David H. BRIERTON, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie Edelson, Clive Stafford Smith, Southern Prisoners Defense Committee, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

J. Craig Myrick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter M. Meginnis, Atty. Gen's. Office, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendant-appellee.

Before RONEY, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge, and CLEMON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This Section 1983 action for damages concerns library access given to plaintiff Charles A. Damyn, a Florida prisoner housed in a segregation unit. A jury trial resulted in a verdict for the defendant warden.

We affirm on the grounds that the case was fairly tried, the district court committed no reversible error at law, and the evidence was not such that a judgment for the plaintiff was required. The...

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