Roberts v. City of New Haven

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Jeffrey Alker Meyer, United States District Judge

During a “live-fire” police training exercise, plaintiff Karen Roberts was shot more than a dozen times with simulated ammunition by her fellow police officers of the New Haven Police Department. She and her spouse—plaintiff Frank Roberts— claim that her colleagues shot her well beyond what was necessary for training purposes in order to retaliate for a controversial letter-to-the-editor that Frank had recently published in the local newspaper. Karen otherwise claims that—whatever their…