Legal Opinion
Casillas-Diaz v. Palau
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 19, 2006No. 04-1303PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal follows a jury verdict awarding a grand total of $1,300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to plaintiffs Pedro Casillas-Diaz (Casillas) and the Estate of Eliomar López-Claudio (López). In reaching this verdict, the jury found that four police officers, defendants Ro-mualdo Palau, Juan Martinez, Liz Diaz, and Gabriel De León, had used excessive force in an encounter with Casillas and López. In this venue, the officers, as appellants, maintain that the lower court erred in denying their motion for judgment as a matter of law and their alternative motion…
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