In re Miedzianowski

ORDER

Police officer Petitioners — Defendants below — in this civil rights action petition for leave to appeal the order granting Plaintiff-Respondent a new trial on the ground that the jury had been erroneously instructed that to succeed on his claims of deliberate indifference to a known medical need, Plaintiff was required to prove that Defendants’ deliberate indifference was the proximate cause of decedent’s death.

This case involves the death of the Plaintiffs brother, decedent William Scoz-zari, who was fatally shot by two police officers, Defendants. Plaintiff, acting as representative…