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HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that, under the premise of statutory indemnification, the City of Pittsburgh cannot be compelled to pay a civil judgment to a local man beaten by an off-duty police officer a decade ago, as the officer was not acting within his official “scope of employment” when the assault transpired. ....
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the City of Pittsburgh is not responsible for paying a $75,000 jury award against an off-duty police officer who chased down a teenager and broke his nose after the 16-year-old was caught smashing pumpkins in the man’s neighborhood. Shane McGuire, now 26, ....
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh has denied liability in litigation between itself and the estate of a deceased man, who was tasered nine times by a local police officer due to being initially considered a suspect in a bicycle theft and who later died from his injuries. ....
PITTSBURGH – Litigation between the estate of a deceased man, who was tasered nine times by a local police officer due to being initially considered a suspect in a bicycle theft and who later died from his injuries, and the City of Pittsburgh has been stayed, in order for the parties to resolve the dispute. ....
PITTSBURGH – The estate of a deceased man, who was tasered nine times by a Pittsburgh police officer due to being initially considered a suspect in a bicycle theft and who later died from his injuries, is now suing the City of Pittsburgh and the officers involved in the incident. ....