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Civil Rights

May 13, 2009

Judge Sides With U.S. in Civil Rights Case, Awards No Damages

A federal judge has ruled government agents committed no wrongdoing in a decade-old civil rights claim brought by a man who said agents pointed a gun at his head when he was an 11-year-old.

By Ciaran McEvoy
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled government agents committed no wrongdoing in a decade-old civil rights claim brought by a man who said agents pointed a gun at his head when he was an 11-year-old.

U.S. District Judge Ronald S. W. Lew found in favor of the U.S. government in connection with a March 1998 raid on the Chatsworth home of Ephraim Tekle, whose parents were then under investigation for sus...

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