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JARVIS v. GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS

D.C. Civ. No. 90-161. T.C. Civ. No. 89-353.

919 F.Supp. 177 (1996)

Arnold E. JARVIS, Jr., Appellee, v. GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS, and Brian Gilman, Individually and as Government Employee, Appellants.

District Court, Virgin Islands, D. St. Croix, Appellate Division.

Decided March 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Gimenez, Solicitor General, V.I. Department of Justice, St. Thomas, V.I., for Appellants.

George W. Cannon, Jr., Frederiksted, St. Croix, V.I., for Appellee.

Before MOORE, Chief Judge, District Court of the Virgin Islands; CAHN, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation; and HENRY C. SMOCK, Judge of the Territorial Court of the United States Virgin Islands, Division of St. Thomas and St. John, Sitting by Designation.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MOORE, Chief Judge.

Arnold E. Jarvis, Jr. ["Jarvis"] sued a Virgin Islands police officer, Brian Gilman ["Gilman"] and the Government of the Virgin Islands ["Government"] for damages allegedly resulting from Gilman's actions taken as a police officer in response to a disturbance during the Christmas Carnival in January of 1989. Jarvis's complaint sought recovery from Gilman individually for the common law tort of assault and battery...

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