U.S. Supreme Court rules against Grand Rapids man who claimed excessive police force, but case not over
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
James King in a photo taken after he was in a scuffle with police who mistook him for a fugitive in Grand Rapids
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A man who claimed police violated his constitutional rights when he was mistakenly arrested as a home invasion suspect, then allegedly beaten in a struggle with police, has lost his case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
But attorneys for James King say the legal saga that began seven years ago is not over yet, with important issues to be decided by a federal appeals court.
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PITTSBURGH – Litigation from a pair of brothers from Western Pennsylvania and their dairy farm, which lodged formal action over a dispute concerning a loan process the farm was involved in and a subsequent sheriff’s sale on their property, is headed back to an Indiana County court.
David E. Kimmel of Plumville and Michael T. Kimmel and Kimmel Brothers Farms, LLC of Home initially filed suit in the Indiana County Court of Common Pleas on May 18, versus Elderton State Bank and Ray Sleppy of Elderton, Farm Service Agency of Washington, D.C., David Poorbaugh of Harrisburg and Charles Glasser of Indiana, Pa.
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High Court Finds FTCA Judgment Bars Police Brutality Suit
Law360 (February 25, 2021, 1:14 PM EST) The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a decision allowing a man to sue federal officers for a violent arrest, finding that the trial court s judgment throwing out his Federal Tort Claims Act suit against the government blocks any suit based on the same event against the officers involved.
In a unanimous decision, the high court reversed a Sixth Circuit decision that had revived James King s suit against Todd Allen and Douglas Brownback, finding that in the circumstances of an FTCA case, subject matter jurisdictional issues overlap with merit issues, such that a finding that a court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over.