Dirty Government Officials
The Devil Residing in Solicitor's Office
You can almost see the horns protruding from balding head of "the city solicitor with the unclean hands."
Mark E. Rumley is Satan incarnate. A vile, pathetic excuse for a human being, the kind of slimy individual that space aliens view as the kind of person that gives our race a bad name in the universe.
Holland v. Farrell & City of Phila., No. 2:16-cv-01900-JS (E.D. Pa. Jan. 5, 2017)
https://www.justice.org/what-we-do/enhance-practice-law/publications/trial-magazine/horrific-police-misconduct-leads
Filing one lawsuit in state court and another in federal is not the norm in these cases, but Kline said it was a strategic decision. Assault and battery are much more straightforward claims than §1983 lawsuits, and he knew they would face an uncertain battle in federal court. “The law in federal court on this issue is not very well settled, which is something you run into often in these cases,” Kline said.
Palmer noted many §1983 cases turn on the question of qualified immunity: whether a government officer who has been sued for monetary damages for constitutional violations can claim this immunity as a complete defense to liability. Palmer said, “That boils down to: Could or should the officer have known that his conduct was unconstitutional or that he was violating the plaintiff’s constitutional rights?”
