Jury Hands Down $100M Verdict Over Police Use Of Taser In Injury Case

Mealey's (September 8, 2022, 2:54 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Following a Georgia federal jury’s Aug. 26 verdict awarding $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages over a police officer’s use of allegedly unreasonable force involving a Taser and Atlanta’s alleged liability under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, the defendants that day filed a renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law, which the plaintiff opposed on Sept. 2....