WATKINS v. Hazen District Court; Billy's Trucking; David Smith, Individually Defendants (2019)

[Unpublished]

Timothy Watkins appeals following the district court’s ¹ judgment on an adverse jury verdict in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Watkins’s challenges to prior decisions of this court are precluded under the law-of-the-case doctrine. See Thompson v. Comm’r of Internal Revenue, 821 F.3d 1008, 1011 (8th Cir. 2016) (reiterating the principle that “when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages of the same case.”). Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

FOOTNOTES

1.   The Honorable Susan Webber Wright, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

PER CURIAM.