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$19.6 Million Verdict in Nassau County New York for Arrestee Run Over By Police by On February 19, 2010, a federal jury awarded $16.6 million to a former construction worker who was run over by a cop in 2005. Thomas Hartman sued Nassau County detective Karl Snelders after Snelders ran …
Article • May 15, 2011
$865,000 Jury Award in Missouri Police Excessive Force Case by On June 10, 2010, a Missouri federal jury awarded a victim of a St. Louis police beating $365,000 in actual damages and $500,000 in punitive damages. Kenneth Rohrbough is a former Marine who suffers from aphasia due to a traumatic …
Austin, Texas Settles Police Shooting Report Access Suit for $12,000 by On June 3, 2010, the City of Austin, Texas agreed to pay $12,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP). TCRP Director Jim Harrington said the group agreed to the settlement, which covers TCRP's …
Article • May 15, 2011
$1.5 Million Settlement in Deadly Police Shooting by After a jury found liability in a police officer’s shooting of a fleeting motorist, the Town of North Branford, Connecticut, paid $1.5 million to settle the matter. Officer Michael Breen made a traffic stop of a car driven by Steve Guerette on …
Article • April 15, 2011
Missouri Man Awarded $300,000 Following Taser Incident by In December 2009, officials in Missouri City, Missouri agreed to pay a $300,000 settlement to prevent future litigation relative to a July 2008 incident in which Phillip Lee McDuffy, 46, was critically injured after being Tasered by police. Kansas City attorney Todd …
Article • April 15, 2011
Federal Agent Assaulted By Chula Vista Police, Awarded $2.2 Million by Jury by In March 2010, a San Diego jury awarded federal agent Sergio Lopez $1.2 in compensatory damages and $1.0 million in punitive damages after finding that he was unlawfully assaulted and battered by Chula Vista police officers. On …
Article • April 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: Jury Finding of Excessive Force Entitles Prevailing Party to Award of Attorney’s Fees by A divided Ninth Circuit has affirmed a jury’s award of only nominal damages for a police officer’s use of excessive force, but reversed the district court’s decision to deny costs and attorney’s fees to …
Article • April 15, 2011
Appeal for Summary Judgment Upheld for Qualified Immunity by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Georgia Federal District Court’s order granting dismissal of a lawsuit alleging use of excessive force on a prisoner. On January 28, 2007, Reginald Fennell was arrested for several misdemeanor charges. As he was …
Article • April 15, 2011
Qualified Immunity Denied in Taser Suit by On December 28, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a denial of qualified immunity for a police officer accused of using excessive force during a traffic stop. Carl Bryan was stopped by Officer Brian McPherson of the Coronado …
Article • April 15, 2011
Taser Constitutes “Intermediate Force”; Law not Clearly Established on Taser Use, Ninth Circuit Decides by The development of a Taser constitutes “intermediate” force, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided June 18, 2010. Carl Bryan sued a Caranado, California cup, the city of Caranado after he was …
Article • April 15, 2011
Florida: Woman Settles Lawsuit Against Sheriff’s Officers for $67,500 after Arrest While in Premature Labor by Derek Gilna In June 2010, Melanie Dawn Williams, who had been arrested by officers after allegedly running a red light on her way to the St. Vincent’s Medical Center emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida …
Jackson v. City of San Bernardino, CA, Deposition of Robert Fonzi, Use of Deadly Force, 2011 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 4 5 6 7 8 - - SHERYL JACKSON, et al., ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, …
Brief • March 25, 2011
Spinks v. County of Los Angeles, CA, 2nd Amended Complaint, False Arrest & Excessive Force, 2011 1 Thomas E. Beck, Esq. (SBN 81557) THE BECK LAW FIRM 2 10377 Los Alamitos Boulevard Los Alamitos, California 90720 3 Telephone: (562) 795-5835 Facsimile: (562) 795-5821 4 Email: becklaw@earthlink.net 5 Attorney for Plaintiff …
Article • March 15, 2011
Indiana Excessive Force Suit Not Heck-Barred by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s dismissal of an Indiana prisoner’s excessive force suit, concluding that the prisoner’s claims were not barred by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994). “Police burst into the home of Ty Evans to …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
Florida Woman Settles Lawsuit Against Sheriff’s Officers for $67,500 After Arrest While in Premature Labor by In June 2010, Melanie Dawn Williams, who had been arrested by officers after allegedly running a red light on her way to the St. Vincent’s Medical Center emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida when she …
Brief • February 4, 2011
Harmon v. Hamilton County, OH, Complaint, 2011 Case: 1:10-cv-00911-SJD Doc #: 3 Filed: 02/04/11 Page: 1 of 14 PAGEID #: 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO WESTERN DIVISION CINCINNATI JOHN HARMON 2250 Endovalley Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45244 : Case No.: 1:10-cv-911 : Judge Herman J. …
Brief • January 10, 2011
Castillo v. City of Oakland et al, CA, Deposition - Cameron, police use of restraints, 2011 1 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 RAYMOND CASTILLO, 4 Plaintiff, 5 -vs- CASE NO. 6 C09-04679SI CITY OF OAKLAND, et al., 7 Defendant. 8 _________________________________/ 9 10 11 …
Did Haitian Police Murder Over a Dozen Unarmed Prisoners? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 12, 2010, Haiti suffered a major earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people and, as a side effect, allowed thousands of prisoners to escape from the country’s most secure lock-up, the national penitentiary …
Brief • October 21, 2010
Mattos v. Agarano, HRDC Amicus Brief 9th Circuit Taser case, 2010 Case: 08-15567 10/21/2010 Page: 1 of 24 ID: 7518622 DktEntry: 33-2 Ninth Circuit No. 08-15567 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT TROY MATTOS, et al., Plaintiffs - Appellees, v. DARREN AGARANO, et al., Defendants - Appellants. …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, by Jonathan Simon (Oxford University Press 2007), 344 pages by Ian Head Review by Ian Head This past spring, a 12-year-old student in Queens, New York was arrested, handcuffed and taken to a …
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