Brown v. Morgan County, Ala.

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• striking claim for compensatory damages in action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 pursuant to the Wrongful Death Act because the Wrongful Death Act only permitted recovery of punitive damages, and punitive damages were not recoverable in a § 1983 action
• dis- languishing non-death cases, in which the federal common law damages remedy is not deficient, frpm death cases, where the federal remedy is deficient and finding that reference must be.made to state law because no remedy existed in common law

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