Legal Opinion
Gerry Scott v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 15, 1997No. 95-7108PublishedCited by 209 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROGERS.
ROGERS, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by the District of Columbia and various members of the Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) from the denial of a motion for judgment as a matter of law, 1 or in the alternative for a new trial or remit-titur, after a jury awarded Gerry Scott compensatory and punitive damages as a result of his encounter with the police on July 9, 1991. Early that morning, a car driven by Scott, then an off-duty member of the MPD, crashed into four parked cars at an intersection on New Hampshire Avenue in Northwest…
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