Pinshaw v. Metropolitan District Commission

Following the decision in Pinshaw v. Metropolitan Dist. Commn., 402 Mass. 687 (1988), in which a divided court reversed a summary judgment for the defendant Met*734ropolitan District Commission (MDC), this case was tried in the Superior Court. At the trial, the plaintiff, Alan Pinshaw, acting under an assignment of rights to indemnification1 from Frederick Monk, an MDC police officer, sought recovery of damages and fees previously awarded Pinshaw in a civil rights suit he had filed against Monk in the United States District Court. In the Federal suit, Pinshaw had alleged that Monk had initiated a…