Civil Rights
Representative Cases
- Inverse condemnation action by residential property owners for flood damage arising from the flooding of uphill v-ditch located on municipality's and property owners land. Property owners claimed municipality's failure to maintain its portion of the v-ditch caused the flooding; municipality maintained that a 100 year rain and flooding unrelated to the maintenance of the v-ditch was the cause of the flooding of plaintiffs' homes. Case settled for cash payment and non-monetary relief.
- Cases for wrongful arrest, personal injury and wrongful death arising from police/citizen interaction.