ICE agent awarded $2.2M in police assault 
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: March 11, 2010
Tags: Excessive Force, Sect. 1983
It was a stakeout gone bad, featuring jumpy police officers, human traffickers, a roughed-up federal agent, and a multimillion-dollar twist of an ending.
Family gets $10.5M for choke hold death
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: February 12, 2010
Tags: civil rights, Excessive Force, Sect. 1983, wrongful death
The family of a Philadelphia teenager who was strangled after being placed in a restraint hold at a Tennessee treatment center has settled a federal lawsuit against the facility for $10.5 million.
$7.5 million payout endorsed in S.F. police case
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: July 28, 2009
Tags: Sect. 1983, wrongful imprisonment
San Francisco officials have agreed to pay out $7.5 million to two men who spent nearly 14 years in prison before their murder convictions were overturned by a judge who ruled that city police investigators and prosecutors withheld evidence.
Warrantless arrest justified by standoff
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: March 16, 2009
Tags: Sect. 1983
Police need not obtain an arrest warrant before taking a suspect into custody after a 12-hour armed standoff, even though exigent circumstances may have dissipated, the en banc 9th Circuit has ruled.
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