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District Court's Refusal to Reinstate Civil Rights Suit Against City OK'd

By Shari Allison

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Manzanares v. City of Albuquerque, 2010 WL 5116912 (12/16/10) (Published) - District judge did not abuse his discretion when he refused to reinstate a law suit against the city. The judge had initially dismissed the suit on the grounds the separate suit against the officer involved was meritless. But the 10th reversed the officer suit and on remand the plaintiff received a total of $200,000 in damages from a jury. The plaintiff would only be entitled to nominal damages from the city. So continuing the suit would accomplish little if any justice.

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on December 22, 2010 (boomark / email).

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