Tanberg v. Sholtis

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Following their arrest for being in a municipal park after it was closed, the Plaintiffs, Deena Tanberg and Valerie Ortega, brought suit asserting state and federal claims of false arrest, a federal claim of excessive force, and state law claims of assault and battery against the Defendants, Officer Tom Sholtis and the City of Albuquerque. After ordering a bifurcated trial, the district court granted Officer Sholtis’s motion for judgment as a matter of law with regard to Plaintiffs’ state and federal claims for false arrest, and the jury found for Officer Sholtis on…