Keith Haywood v. Richard Koehler, Captain Garcia, Captain Small

How courts have described this case

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• holding that if prisoner was assaulted in his cell in an excessive use of force, such an assault could warrant some compensatory damages, at least for pain and suffering, even if no laceration 13 or other observable injuries resulted
• refusing to review weight-of-the-evidence challenges to both liability and damages findings
• “new trial []usually limited to the issue of the amount of compensatory damages”
• \new trial []usually limited to the issue of the amount of compensatory damages\
• “If . . . a handcuffed prisoner[] was assaulted in a cell . . . such 5 an assault would necessarily warrant some compensatory damages, at least 6 for pain and suffering, even if no lacerations or other observable injuries 7 resulted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).