Legal Opinion
Whatley v. City of Dallas
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided August 3, 1988No. 05-87-00620-CVPublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HECHT, Justice.
Thrice now Ronnie Whatley has sued the City of Dallas to recover damages for a violation of his civil rights which occurred over a decade ago when Dallas police officer John Yito Del Gaudio used excessive force in arresting him. In this the latest of the three cases Whatley asserts the claim, assigned to him by Del Gaudio, that the City, under its self-administered liability protection plan, wrongly refused to defend Del Gaudio in Whatley’s original civil rights action. By this claim Whatley seeks to recover the excess of his judgment against Del Gaudio in the civil rights…
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