Opinion
No. 19-1866
11-04-2019
Timothy Watkins Plaintiff - Appellant v. Arkansas, State of; Keith Rhodes, Individually Defendants Brad Perkins, Individually Defendant - Appellee Hazen District Court; Billy's Trucking; David Smith, Individually Defendants
Appeal from United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock [Unpublished] Before LOKEN, WOLLMAN, and KELLY, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM.
Timothy Watkins appeals following the district court's 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.
The Honorable Susan Webber Wright, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.