JURY REJECTS $50 MILLION SUIT BY WOMAN IN CRUISER CRASH.Byline: RICK ORLOV Staff Writer The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. City Attorney's Office won a major case Thursday when a jury rejected a $50 million lawsuit filed on behalf of a 26-year-old East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. woman who has been in a vegetative state Vegetative State Definition A coma-like state characterized by open eyes and the appearance of wakefulness is defined as vegetative. Description The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. since a car crash involving an LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officer in 2004. In a 9-3 verdict, a Superior Court jury decided that Yesenia Monroy and her family are not entitled to any payments in what even city officials acknowledged was a tragic accident in which her 6-year-old daughter and two Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers also were
injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. . Chief Assistant City Attorney Gary Geuss, who heads the civil liability management division, said the verdict after a six-week trial shows that the City Attorney's Office does not routinely approve settlements or seek to avoid trials. ``There is an impression out there that we are reluctant to go to trial,'' Geuss said. ``... When we think we have a good case, we will fight it all the way.'' The City Attorney's Office has been under fire because of its recommendation that the City Council settle a $2.7 million claim against the city by Firefighter Tennie Pierce, whose colleagues placed dog food in his spaghetti as a prank. Some council members have suggested that a private law firm be brought in to handle the case. Geuss said the Monroy case went to a mediator, who believed it could have cost the city $10 million. ``We said we wouldn't settle,'' Geuss said. ``We felt we had the facts on our side.'' The case stemmed from an incident in which officers were running after a gang member they believed was carrying a gun. Other officers heard began responding to the scene with lights and sirens Sirens with song, bird-women lure sailors to death. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] See : Enchantment sirens their singing so sweet, it lured sailors to their death. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 48] See : Singer . Monroy, whom officials believe was leaving the home of a boyfriend after a dispute, apparently pulled in front of a patrol car at Boyle Avenue and Third Street about 10:30 p.m. ``It was a tragic accident all around, but the city and the officer did not do anything wrong,'' said Deputy City Attorney Will Jay Pirkey. ``We think the jury listened to the facts of the case and decided that police officers have a dangerous job, and they did all they could have in this incident to alert the public.'' Attorneys for the Monroy family declined to comment. rick.orlov(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 |
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