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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 • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Jailing for Debt on the Rise by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The use of arrest warrants to jail people who have defaulted on debts is increasing. In Minnesota alone, there were 845 civil arrest warrants issued against debtors in 2009, an increase of 60% compared with 2004. Over a …
Brief • May 2, 2011
Mitchell v. Woodcum, MI, Motion to Preclude Police Report, Naked False Arrest, 2011 Case 2:09-cv-14647-SJM-MKM Document 29 Filed 05/02/11 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATE DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION LATESHA MITCHELL Plaintiff, Case No. 09-CV-14647 Honorable Steven J. Murphy v DETROIT POLICE OFFICER OSCAR WOODCUM, Badge …
Brief • May 2, 2011
Mitchell v. Woodcum, MI, Motion to Preclude Prior Criminal History, Naked False Arrest, 2011 Case 2:09-cv-14647-SJM-MKM Document 28 Filed 05/02/11 Page 1 of 5 UNITED STATE DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION LATESHA MITCHELL Plaintiff, Case No. 09-CV-14647 Honorable Steven J. Murphy v DETROIT POLICE OFFICER OSCAR WOODCUM, …
Mora v. Arpaio, AZ, Court Order, Illegal Search. Seizure; Immigrant Raid, 2011 Case 2:09-cv-01719-DGC Document 172 1 Filed 04/25/11 Page 1 of 17 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Julian Mora; and Julio Mora, Plaintiffs, 10 …
Article • April 15, 2011
NYPD Cops Can Be Subjected to Drug Testing Without Collective Bargaining by The Police Commissioner of New York City may require NYPD officers to submit to drug testing of their hair without undergoing collective bargaining, New York’s highest court decided December 17, 2009. The officers’ union had argued that the …
Article • April 15, 2011
D.C. Court of Appeals Upholds $450,000 Verdict for Motorist in Traffic Accident with Cop by On May 13, 2010, the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld a $450,000 verdict against two D.C. cops who were involved in the arrest of a motorist following a traffic accident with an off-duty D.C. cop. …
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
Ohio Sheriff Agrees to Pay $100,000 After Illegal Immigration Raid by Richard Jones, the Sherriff of Butler County, Ohio has agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit surrounding an immigration raid conducted by his deputies in 2007. Luis Roberto Rodriguez Trevino, an undocumented Mexican national, was doing construction work in …
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
$150,000 Settlement in Strip Search Suit by Jail’s Juvenile Visitors by The District of Columbia paid $150,000 to settle the lawsuit of Marcus Bradley, a minor, for injuries sustained from false arrest. While attending school at W. Bruce Evans Middle School on May 17, 2001, Bradley, along with eleven other …
$150,000 Settlement Paid in D.C. Minor’s False Arrest Lawsuit by The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $150,000 to settle the lawsuit of Steven A. Douglass, a minor, for false arrest and imprisonment while his school class was on a “field trip” to the D.C. Jail. On April 9, 2001 Douglass, …
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