Plaintiffs lawyers socked the city of Harlingen with a $35 million jury verdict on Feb. 26 in federal court by arguing a legal theory that was only recently blessed by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The police misconduct case revolved around the deaths of two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were fatally shot by the son of a Harlingen Police Department detective. Ernest Moore used a police-issued assault rifle in the attack. A Cameron County sheriff’s deputy also was seriously injured in the July 1998 melee, in which the gunman died.
Lawyers for the surviving family members and the wounded sheriff’s deputy filed Salinas, et al. v. City of Harlingen more than one year ago in U.S. District Judge Hilda Tagle’s Brownsville court, arguing that the police department had no guidelines regarding weapons officers took home with them.
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