Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Excessive Force Taser Case

Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Excessive Force Taser Case In a recent opinion, the Alaska Supreme Court reversed a Bethel Superior Court’s prior decision to prevent a lawsuit against the City of Hooper Bay and a couple of its police officers to proceed to jury trial on the basis of qualified immunity. Attorneys Michele Power and Sean Brown from the Power and Brown law firm, brought the lawsuit on Thomas Olsen's behalf in 2007 after two Hooper Bay officers tasered Olson at least 15 times in rapid succession in his own home while he was handcuffed; some of these tasings occurred when Olso
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