Court upholds $1.5M award for man bitten by Kennewick K-9 – Mid-Columbia
A Washougal man was justly awarded more than $1.5 million after he was bitten in 2003 by a Kennewick police dog, a federal appeals court announced Tuesday.
The 2007 jury verdict in favor of Ken Rogers and a later decision to increase the total tab to cover court costs were not “grossly excessive or monstrous.”
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the federal case, brought by Rogers against the city of Kennewick, Benton County and four law enforcement officers.
Rogers sued on the grounds that his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure were violated when the officers allowed a police dog to enter the fenced backyard where the man was sleeping and attack him.
The jury decided that the officers acted maliciously or in reckless disregard for his constitutional rights.
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