UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 99-1986
TADSWELL LAMONT MELSON,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
WAL-MART STORES, INCORPORATED,
Defendant - Appellant,
and
RANDY SMITHSON, individually and in his offi-
cial capacity; SAM KEITH, individually and in
his official capacity,
Defendants.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of North Carolina, at Elizabeth City. Terrence W. Boyle,
Chief District Judge. (CA-98-3-2-BO)
Submitted: February 22, 2000 Decided: March 14, 2000
Before NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Douglas M. Martin, POYNER & SPRUILL, L.L.P., Charlotte, North
Carolina, for Appellant. C. Everett Thompson, II, Elizabeth City,
North Carolina, David R. Pureza, DUFFUS, YOUNCE, MELVIN & VTIPIL,
P.A., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Appellant, Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated, appeals from the jury
verdict and award of damages in this civil diversity case. Wal-
Mart asserts that the district court erred in: (1) excluding evi-
dence of a prior conviction under Fed. R. Evid. 403; (2) submitting
the issue of compensatory damages to the jury; and (3) submitting
the issue of punitive damages to the jury. We have reviewed the
record, containing the district court’s reasoning, and the parties’
briefs and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions
are adequately presented in the materials before the court and
argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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