After a federal judge issued a take-nothing final judgment in a lawsuit against Bill Helfand’s clients—the city of La Porte and police officer Matthew Davidson— Helfand wished out loud: Bring back the tabloids, now.
The lawyer wanted as much coverage of his clients’ court victory as there was of their vilification. In 2012 Tammy Cooper had filed Cooper v. The City of La Porte, alleging that a police officer, later identified as Davidson, had arrested her for child abandonment after she simply permitted her children to play outside her home and watched from a window inside the house. Prosecutors later dropped the charge against Cooper. But Cooper alleged that the city and the officer had violated her constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. §1983 with her arrest.
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