THURMAN v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA

No. 19-CV-912.

282 A.3d 564 (2022)

Jordan Marcus THURMAN, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil E. Nappo , Falls Church, VA, for appellant.

Lucy E. Pittman , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Karl A. Racine , Attorney General, Loren L. AliKhan , Solicitor General at the time of argument, and Caroline S. Van Zile , Principal Deputy Solicitor General at the time of argument, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before Easterly and Deahl, Associate Judges, and Washington, Senior Judge.


Appellant, Jordan Thurman, was fifteen years old when he was bitten by a Metropolitan Police Department ("MPD") canine while hiding from MPD officers in his great-grandmother's house. A neighbor called the police when Mr. Thurman and his friends entered his great-grandmother's house through a window. As a result of the...

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