Lawyers Receive $360,000 in Settlement for False Arrest and Excessive Force
Civil rights lawyer Michael Warren and his wife, Evelyn, also a lawyer, recently received $360,000 in a settlement for false arrest and excessive force by an officer of the NYPD. The couple was...
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Billington v. Smith
Totality of the Circumstances in Police Shootings. Attachment Billington.pdf Court United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Topic Excessive Force
View ArticleSon of Meriden Police Chief Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
MERIDEN, CT — On Wednesday, November 14, Police Officer Evan Cossette, son of police chief Jeffry Cossette, was indicted by a federal grand jury for using unreasonable force and filing a false report...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Federal Jury Awards $350,000 to Civil Rights Client
On Thursday, November 15, 2012, a jury sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania awarded Darryl Williams $350,000. The jury’s award — which included $200,000 in...
View ArticleCity of Ventura settles Civil Rights Law Suit in Beating Case
On December 11, 2012 the city of Ventura, CA issued a statement that it will pay $285,000 in a settlement with Denny D. Fields, a man who was severely beaten by several Ventura police officers who were...
View ArticleCity of Lubbock Texas settles excessive force case for $425, 000
On December 13, Lubbock’s City Council approved a settlement of $425,000 in a case of excessive force by two Lubbock police officers while they arrested three people in 2009. The plaintiffs alleged,...
View ArticleParents of Keith Briscoe who died in excessive force case agreed to a $2.65...
36-year-old Keith Briscoe died from traumatic asphyxia when former patrolman Sean Richards, and other officers and civilians, tried to detain him outside a Berlin Borough convenience store.Briscoe, who...
View ArticleEDNY: 2.5 Million in Excessive Force and False Arrest Case
A jury in the EDNY returned a verdict of 2.5 million on behalf of a plaintiff who suffered considerable and lasting physical and psychological injury from an assault and false arrest by NYPD officers...
View ArticleRochester District Court Returns $120k verdict against Southport Corrections...
Plaintiff, represented by NPAP member law firm Sivin & Miller, accused the officers of beating him while he was handcuffed at Southport Correctional Facility in 2008. 5 of the 6 accused officers...
View Article$50k Settlement Reached in Missouri Case For Dog Killed By Police Officer
Cammie, the 18-month-old American Bulldog, was shot and killed in March of 2010. Plaintiff filed suit in St. Louis federal court in January, 2012. Plaintiff argued that the police officer's job was...
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Saginaw Firing Squad Case Settled
The civil rights case on behalf of the Estate of Milton Hall, over the horrifying “firing squad” execution by officers of the Saginaw Police Department on July 1, 2012 was settled post- filing, but...
View ArticleMadison County Sheriff's Department settles lawsuit for $625,000
The Madison County Sheriff's Department (in Huntsville, AL) has settled for $625,000 with Robert Bryant, the plaintiff who was savagely beaten by several deputies and falsely arrested.On the night of...
View Article$8 Million Awarded in CA Wrongful Death Suit
A civil court jury has awarded $8 million to the family of Darren Burley, who died during a violent fight with police in Compton.In August 2012, police responded to a call of what was identified as a...
View ArticleFederal Jury Awards $5.5M in Killing of Cleveland Man by Off-Duty Officer
On Tuesday, September 8, 2015, a federal jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Kenneth Smith, a 20-year old hiphop musician who was shot in the head by an off-duty Cleveland police officer in...
View ArticleRecord 1.6M Settlement for Mentally Ill Victim of Police Shooting in Texas
On Tuesday, September 22, the Dallas City Council approved a civil settlement in the amount of $1.6 million for Bobby Bennett, who in 2013 was shot in the stomach by Dallas police officer Cardan...
View ArticleU of Chicago Law School's Police Accountability Clinic Launches New Police...
On November 10, 2015, the University of Chicago Law School's Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic announced a new interactive online database providing the general public with access to tens...
View ArticleKPCC Los Angeles Releases Analysis of 375 Shootings of Civilians by Police in...
On November 10, 2015, Los Angeles radio station KPCC launched its "Officer Involved" series, analyzing investigatory summaries obtained from the Los Angeles district attorney detailing 375 shootings of...
View Article$11.3M Awarded by Jury to California Man Shot in Back by Police in 2014
On January 3, 2014, Hung Lam, a Vietnamese national, was shot at home by a police officer in San Jose, California. On the day in question, Lam was experiencing suicidal urges following a domestic...
View Article$180K in Damages to Motorcyclist Assaulted by State Trooper
On January 14, 2016, a federal jury ruled that a Eugene, OR motorcyclist's civil rights were violated when his clavicle was broken by a state trooper who kicked him in the chest during a traffic stop....
View ArticleNYPD Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Shooting of Akai Gurley
On Friday, February 12, a jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict of manslaughter and official misconduct for New York Police Department officer Peter Liang, who shot Akai Gurley dead in a dark...
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