FINLEY v. EMPIREGAS INC. OF POTOSI

No. 93-2218.

28 F.3d 782 (1994)

Sherri FINLEY, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. EMPIREGAS INC. OF POTOSI, a Delaware Corp.; Empire Gas Corporation, a Missouri Corporation, Defendants, State of Missouri, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. Bastian, St. Louis, MO, argued, for appellant.

Gary L. Gardner, Jefferson City, MO, argued, for appellee.

Before MAGILL, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge and BEAM, Circuit Judge.


BEAM, Circuit Judge.

The district court, following the dictates of Mo.Rev.Stat. § 537.675, awarded the State of Missouri a portion of the punitive damages Sherri Finley won on her Missouri Human Rights Act claim against Empiregas Inc. of Potosi and Empire Gas Corp. (collectively "Empiregas).1 Finley challenges the constitutionality of the Missouri punitive damages statute and claims that the...

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