• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    26 days ago

    for those not clicking-through but wondering anyway:

    the seemingly small award is intentional.

    Late last month, plaintiff Alek Schott of Houston was awarded $76, one dollar for each minute that he was detained. (Schott asked for this exact amount as symbolic compensation.)