Tag Archives: §1983

Today’s burning question: I saw your article on the Wilmington LODD lawsuit and do not understand why the families of the deceased firefighters would bother suing the city for a civil rights violation. Answer: Civil rights suits are viewed by some attorneys as a strategic “end around” the tort defenses that fire departments would typically raise in cases like this. Whether the strategy will actually work is another story.

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The City of Utica, New York has settled a federal lawsuit that accused the city of wrongful death and “purposely and maliciously withholding protective services from (the victims) because they lived in a low-income neighborhood.”

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UPDATED 8/16/2014 WITH COMPLAINT: The long anticipated civil suit has been filed against the San Francisco Fire Department by the parents of a 16-year-old Chinese girl who died following the crash of an Asiana Airlines 777 in July 2013.

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