Legal Opinion
Athena Bachtel v. TASER International, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 3, 2014No. 13-1445PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
A Moberly police officer shot Stanley Harlan in the chest with an electronic control device (ECD) after a traffic stop just past midnight on August 28, 2008. Harlan died within two hours, and his mother Athena Bachtel sued the City of Moberly and several police officers under 42 Ü.S.C. § 1983 for excessive force and deliberate indifference. After that case settled for $2.4 million in June 2009, Bachtel brought this action against manufacturer TASER International, Inc. (TASER) for products liability and negligence, alleging that TA-SER was liable for (1) not having…
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