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Dobie v. City of New Haven, 346 Conn. 487 (2023)

Connecticut Supreme Court decision affirming the Appellate Court’s ruling in Dobie v. City of New Haven, 204 Conn. App. 583 (2021) directing the entry of judgment in favor of the City, finding that the alleged negligent act of City’s snowplow operator in knocking off a manhole cover while plowing moments before the plaintiff drove into the manhole constituted a “highway defect,” thereby making Connecticut General Statutes § 13a-149, the Highway Defect Statute, the plaintiff’s exclusive remedy for injuries alleged.

Dobie v. City of New Haven, 346 Conn. 487 (2023) Dobie v. City of New Haven, 204 Conn. App. 583 (2021)

McKinney v. City of Middletown, 49 F.4th 730 (2d Cir. 2022)

U.S. Court of Appeals decision affirming summary judgment in favor of the defendants, finding that the defendant officers were entitled to qualified immunity on the basis that their incremental and combined use of a baton, a canine, and a taser, to subdue him while transferring him from holding cell to padded cell did not violate clearly established law in light of his active resistance, and that the defendant officers’ continued use of force after the plaintiff ceased actively resisting but before he was fully secured did not the Fourth Amendment.

McKinney v. City of Middletown

Doe v. City of New Haven, 214 Conn. App. 553 (2022)

Connecticut Appellate Court decision affirming summary judgment in favor of the defendants pursuant to their defense of governmental immunity as to the plaintiff’s negligence claims related to his sexual abuse by his former theatre teacher.

Doe v. City of New Haven