NITCHER v. DOES

No. 90-1837.

956 F.2d 796 (1992)

Rory NITCHER, Appellant, v. John DOES; Newby; Macarthur Woodruff; Donald Edwards; George Thompson; Donald Quarton; Kenneth Baysinger; John Sydow; Henry Jackson; James Dearduff; George Adams; David Corum; Gary Hill, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1992.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis E. Woods, Kansas City, Mo., argued, (Mary Virginia Clarke, on brief), for appellant.

Bruce Farmer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., argued, for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, and MAGILL, Circuit Judge.


LAY, Chief Judge.

Rory Nitcher, a prisoner incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections ("MDOC"), appeals the district court's judgment on a jury verdict denying his claims filed under Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988). Nitcher also appeals the jury verdict on a counterclaim awarding the MDOC and eleven individual prison officials (the "prison officials") actual and punitive damages on abuse of process arising from Nitcher's suit. The MDOC and the State...

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