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Litigation

Oct. 25, 2016

Disabled SF woman who was shot by police settles for $1 million

The city and county of San Francisco has settled for $1 million high-profile allegations that a pair of police officers ran afoul of disability rights when they shot a mentally ill woman several times.

By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The city and county of San Francisco has settled for $1 million high-profile allegations that a pair of police officers ran afoul of disability rights when they shot a mentally ill woman several times.

The lawsuit was brought by Teresa Sheehan, who survived the incident in 2008, and it made it all the way to a divided U.S. Supreme Court, which last year granted qualified...

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