An appeals court has upheld a jury’s decision to award $3 million to a Texas mother who filed a wrongful death lawsuit after her son was shocked 18 times with a Taser stun gun by police before dying. …
A federal judge has approved a settlement agreement reached in a Taser class action lawsuit between Ohio prison inmates and the jailers they claim abused them with the stun guns. …
A Taser lawsuit has been filed by the mother of an Ohio man who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being shot by police with a stun gun and falling headfirst to the ground. …
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a Maryland wrongful death lawsuit to move forward against a county and one of its deputies over the use of a Taser stun gun. …
A Texas man has filed a police brutality lawsuit against the police officer and police department that he says shot him with a Taser stun gun unnecessarily, as well as a product liability lawsuit against the company that manufactured the weapon. …
The Jefferson County Sherriff’s Department in Illinois has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a police brutality lawsuit filed after deputies allegedly used a stun gun on three children and physically assaulted a young girl. …
The recent use of a Taser stun gun on the nephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is raising questions as to whether the weapons are appropriate in a hospital setting. …
A California judge has cleared the way for a Taser brain damage lawsuit to proceed to trial, rejecting Taser International’s attempts to dismiss the claim that their stun gun caused a man’s heart to stop. The trial is scheduled to begin in August, and Taser International was also ordered to pay the plaintiff’s expenses in defending against a portion of their motion, which the court indicated was filed in bad faith.…
A $10 million wrongful death lawsuit in Maryland has been filed against Baltimore County police by the family of a bipolar man who died after being struck with a Taser stun gun. …
The family of a 33 year-old doctor who died after being shot with a stun gun by Nevada Highway Patrol officer has filed a lawsuit against Taser International, alleging that the stun gun maker failed to adequately warn about the potentially fatal effects of Tasers.…
