Scott Robinett v. City of Indianapolis

Sykes, Circuit Judge.

Scott Robinett and the City of Indianapolis were codefendants in a civil-rights action. Robinett, a police officer, was accused of failing to intervene in an escalating domestic dispute between two fellow police officers. The dispute ended violently in a tragic murder-suicide, and the murder victim's estate asserted claims against Robinett and the City under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Indiana law. They won the case; the district judge rejected the estate's claims and entered summary judgment for the defendants. Robinett then asked the judge to order the City to pay his…