Thomas Stokes v. Euda Delcambre, as Sheriff of Vermillion Parish

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• concluding that in the § 1983 context, malicious, wanton, or oppressive acts are within the traditional tort punitive damages standards as required by Smith v. Wade
• holding that a sheriff who was charged by the law with control and supervision over the jail “owed to his prisoner the constitutionally rooted obligation not to detain him in a manner which made it likely he would be beaten and sexually assaulted”
• holding that a sheriff who was charged by the law with control and supervision over the jail “owed to his prisoner the constitutionally rooted obligation not to detain him in a manner which made it likely he would be beaten and sexually assaulted”
• holding that a sheriff who was charged by the law with control and supervision over the jail “owed to his prisoner the constitutionally rooted obligation not to detain him in a manner which made it likely he would be beaten and sexually assaulted”
• forbidding “plaintiff’s counsel to explicitly request a jury to place themselves in the plaintiff’s position and do unto him as they would have him do unto them”
• finding no plain error because \no repeated impermissible use of the argument technique\

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