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Virginia Tech loses civil suit over 2007 gunman (access required)

Published: March 15, 2012

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The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury has agreed with them.

Shooting victim’s family sues school officials (access required)

Published: February 13, 2012

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The family of a boy who was shot to death at a Madison County, Ala. middle school in 2010 is suing Madison school officials and others. They say the school officials failed to protect him from a problem student.

Family wins $2 million wrongful death civil suit against highway patrol (access required)

Published: February 6, 2012

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The family of Joey Pinasco – a 21-year-old shot to death by two California Highway Patrol officers – has won a $2 million civil lawsuit against the department in federal court Sacramento.

Gunshot location evidence ruled admissible under Frye (access required)

Published: November 8, 2011

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A Missouri trial judge faced with the first-in-the-nation Frye v. U.S. challenge to forensic evidence retrieved from a ShotSpotter gunshot location system has concluded that the evidence is admissible.

Wrongful death case settles after ruling (access required)

Published: October 17, 2011

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A wrongful death trial has ended with a confidential settlement between a security guard, his employer and the family of a man shot to death during an argument at the San Diego, Calif. Vista Transit Center in September 2009.

Gunmaker settles suit for record $600,000 (access required)

Published: July 27, 2011

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A Worcester, Mass. arms manufacturer has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to the families of two people shot — one of them fatally — by a pistol stolen from the gun plant and sold twice for drugs.

Family of murdered police officer wins $37.5 million verdict (access required)

Published: April 20, 2011

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A Madison County jury has awarded $37.5 million in a civil verdict to the family of Daniel Golden.  Benito Albarran shot Golden to death in 2005.  Golden was a Huntsville police officer.

$2.5 million settlement reached over woman’s fatal shooting (access required)

By: Tony Ogden
Published: February 14, 2011

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An Ohio judge has approved a $2.5 million wrongful death settlement in an officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed woman that set off protests about police treatment of minorities.

Shooting lawsuit results in record $46 million verdict (access required)

By: Tony Ogden
Published: February 8, 2011

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A lawsuit over a shooting at Denny’s Restaurant in Kent, Wash. has resulted in a $46.4 million verdict, a state record for a personal-injury case.

Mayor settles suit after SWAT shoots his dogs (access required)

By: Associated Press
Published: February 3, 2011

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The mayor of a small town in a suburb of Washington, D.C. is settling a lawsuit he filed against a Maryland county after his dogs were shot to death during a SWAT team raid at his house.

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