Charlie Taylor v. Carl G. Green, Jimmy L. Alford, and B.L. Cathey

How courts have described this case

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• holding court may award undisputed amount of damages without violating prohibition of additur
• “The court manifestly lacked power to add to the amount of the verdict for either compensatory or punitive damages.”
• without establishing that he was entitled to compensatory damages, plaintiff proved that defendants violated his constitutional rights, in which case he was entitled by law to nominal damages
• without establishing that he was entitled to compensatory damages, plaintiff proved that defendants violated his constitutional rights, in which case he was entitled by law to nominal damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).