Eddie Risdal v. Sally C. Halford, Paul Hedgepeth, and Ronald Welder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an award of nominal damages is required \upon proof of an infringement of the first amendment right to speak\
• holding court must award nominal damages in the amount of $1.00 for First Amendment violations
• holding in a § 1983 case that it was legal error to instruct jury that it \may\ award nominal damages if the jury found a constitutional violation, instead of that it \must\
• holding in a § 1983 case that it was legal error to instruct jury that it “may” award nominal damages if the jury found a constitutional violation, instead of that it “must”
• instructing the district court to award one dollar in nominal damages where a jury found for the § 1983 plaintiff but found no actual damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).