Live expert testimony key in $1.6M auto negligence verdict 
By:
Douglas J Levy
Published: December 26, 2012
Tags: brain injury, car crash, Michigan, police
Michigan attorney Lawrence Nolan used large, colored charts to explain to a jury the effects that a traumatic brain injury had on his client, who was hit by a police cruiser.
Police officer wins employment case
Published: November 6, 2012
Tags: Missouri, police, retaliation, sex discrimination
A Missouri jury has returned a verdict for a Capitol Police officer who alleged retaliation for complaining about sex discrimination at her job.
Md. jury awards $5.6M in warrant snafu
Published: October 30, 2012
Tags: Maryland, police, wrongful arrest
A jury has awarded damages of $5.6 million to a disc jockey who was arrested and jailed in 2009 after a county sheriff’s department in Maryland mistakenly entered a warrant against him into the National Criminal Information System database.
City will pay police detective $350,000 to settle case
Published: October 16, 2012
Tags: police, Washington, wrongful termination
The Spokane City Council voted 5-1 to approve a $350,000 settlement with a police detective who had been fired.
City to settle hiring HIV discrimination suit
Published: October 10, 2012
Tags: AIDS, Georgia, hiring discrimination, HIV, police
A man who claimed he was not hired with the Atlanta Police Department because he was HIV-positive is on the verge of getting $250,000 from the city in a settlement.
Jury awards $3.2 million to woman shot by LAPD
Published: October 4, 2012
Tags: California, police, stun gun
A federal jury has handed down the latest multimillion-dollar verdict against the Los Angeles Police Department, finding officers were “malicious” and excessive when they shot a mentally ill woman and then used a stun gun on her.
False arrest, beating claims settled for $500,000
By:
Steve Lash
Published: September 18, 2012
Tags: battery, civil rights, false arrest, false imprisonment, grandparent, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, kidnapping, loss of consortium, Maryland, police, prison
A Baltimore, Md. grandfather who was beaten while in jail with his wife on allegedly trumped-up charges of kidnapping their grandchild will receive $500,000 from the city under a recently approved out-of-court settlement.
Man wins $5,500 in false-arrest suit against city
Published: September 17, 2012
Tags: false arrest, New York, police, police beating
A former city man was awarded $5,500 by a federal jury after he said he was “pummeled” and falsely arrested by Yonkers, N.Y. police when he went to the Cross County Shopping Center to pick up his girlfriend from work.
University to pay settlement in pepper spray case
Published: September 14, 2012
Tags: California, pepper spray, police, protest, university
The University of California will pay damages to the UC Davis students and alumni who were pepper sprayed by campus police during an otherwise peaceful protest 10 months ago, officials said.
Former police chiefs settle suit
Published: August 30, 2012
Tags: Georgia, police, wrongful termination
A lawsuit settlement has been approved for $250,000 to end complaints by two former police chiefs against the City of Lakeland, Ga.
