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KEMEZY v. PETERS

Nos. 95-1860, 95-1904, and 95-2121.

79 F.3d 33 (1996)

Jeffrey KEMEZY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James PETERS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael K. Sutherlin, Ida Coleman Lamberti (argued), Sutherlin & Associates, Indianapolis, IN, for Jeffrey Kemezy.

John H. Brooke (argued), Casey Dean Cloyd (argued), McClellan, McClellan, Brooke & Arnold, Muncie, IN, for James Peters, individually and as a Police Officer of the City of Muncie.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ESCHBACH and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Jeffrey Kemezy sued a Muncie, Indiana policeman named James Peters under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Peters had wantonly beaten him with the officer's nightstick in an altercation in a bowling alley where Peters was moonlighting as a security guard. The jury awarded Kemezy $10,000 in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages. Peters' appeal challenges only the award of punitive damages, and that on the narrowest of grounds...

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