Ferreira v. City of Birmingham
Officer shot plaintiff while executing a no-knock search warrant; plaintiff sued officer under § 1983 and brought state law claims against officer and the City in negligence; jury ruled in the officer’s favor on both the § 1983 claim and negligence claim, but in favor of the plaintiff against the City on the negligence claim, awarding plaintiff $3 million in damages; Second Circuit held plaintiff’s evidence was sufficient to justify a negligence verdict against the City, despite the verdict in the officer’s favor on negligence; however, because the federal court concluded that New York stat