Legal Opinion
City of Nome v. Ailak
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided September 23, 1977No. 3137PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DIMOND, Justice Pro Tem.
A jury awarded Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ailak a verdict against the City of Nome (hereafter “the City”) and certain City police officers, as follows: $45,000.00 for false arrest, $45,000.00 for false imprisonment, and $10,000.00 for trespass. These were compensatory damages; no punitive damages were awarded.
TRESPASS
Samuel Ailak was stopped outside his . home in connection with an investigation by City police officers of a reported rape and murder. A man named Encelewski, who had called the police to report that those crimes had occurred, was standing near Ai-lak when…
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