Court Opinion

ID: 9467425
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:48:39.473104+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:20.634496
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HENLEY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
The opinion of the panel correctly reflects the state of the law and the standard under which the court reviews nonjury awards of damages by district courts. Even so, the judgment appealed from should be affirmed.
The sole issue on appeal is whether the award of $800.00 is enough to compensate appellant for a hemorrhoid condition which he insists was caused by unlawful confinement and which he says is permanent. The district court found against appellant on this issue in terms that I consider adequate to cover aggravation of the condition as well as causation of the basic condition.
We are cited to no independent evidence of causal connection between the confinement and the hemorrhoids from which we can say that the district court erred. The most favorable evidence that appears in the transcript is a statement by a prison nurse that confinement “might” have aggravated Davis’ condition.
Even though the court construes pro se pleadings liberally in an effort to achieve substantial justice, I think we should not expand the case beyond fair articulation of appellant’s claim, and I would affirm the judgment of the district court.