Briggs v. Marshall

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that nominal damages may be awarded in a Fourth Amendment excessive force case where no injury resulted from the use of excessive force, where the evidence of actual injury is not credible, or where the injury has no monetary value
• nominal damage instruction inappropriate when there is no dispute as to whether plaintiff suffered a provable injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).