United States v. Unruh

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the statement “I would . . . like to at this time note that defendants wish to move for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict” qualified as a Rule 50(b) motion because, inter alia, the district court understood the 3 statement as a Rule 50(b) motion
• finding personal involvement where defendant gave instructions that prisoners be transferred and the jury could \infer that he knew\ retaliation against plaintiffs would likely result
• finding a transfer of a prisoner made solely in retaliation for the exercise of constitutionally protected rights is an adverse action
• retaliatory transfer “to other maximum security facilities,” where upon arrival inmates “were beaten” by “correctional officials wielding batons” constituted adverse action
• “There is, of course, no vicarious liability in section 1983 actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).