Main evidence in civil rights case is video of police striking drug suspect in alley outside of tavern in November 2019. Video was made public in July 2020 in court and by Erie Times-News.
National Fuel Gas is claiming city charges excessive fees for cutting into streets during repair, construction jobs. Utility wants judge to issue injunction to end practice, invalidate city law.
Plaintiff claimed collarbones, ribs were broken when he was arrested on Jan. 1 as he was walking from hospital, only medical gown, pants. He received mental health treatment. City defended police.
ERIE – A federal judge has rejected the Erie School District’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by the mother of an emotionally disabled and autistic male student, one who the suit says was discriminated against and then unsafely ejected from school.
A former Westmoreland County prison guard avoided a preliminary hearing Friday on charges of assaulting a 33-year-old inmate by waiving his case to trial in common pleas court.
A 33-year-old Westmoreland County Prison inmate who claims he was violently beaten by six guards earlier this year at the Hempfield lockup is seeking $225,000 in a federal lawsuit alleging his civil rights were violated.
Members of Erie Equal wanted to ‘start a conversation’ about reallocating funds used for policing to other areas.
Three Erie men were injured after City of Erie Patrolman Joshua Allison illegally assaulted them during arrests he conducted.
Plaintiff Davaughn Tate-Johnson claims an officer punched him three times during an arrest in January.
Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Sources, Inc. agreed to pay the settlement to end questions about staffing at the prison. Questions about the number of physician hours Wexford provides at the prison were first raised publicly in a federal lawsuit filed by Erie lawyer John Mizner after an inmate at the prison.
In a move the inmate’s lawyer described as extremely rare, the Department of Justice filed a brief in support of the inmate, Robert Furgess, who sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in January 2017 under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
A federal judge on Monday approved the $1.1 million settlement between Erie County and the family of a work-release inmate who died after suffering an asthma attack during a shift in May 2018.