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- Defended due process claims relating to the responsibility of police officers for the post custodial suicide of a released arrestee.
- Litigated equal protection and other constitutional claims arising from the murder of a young woman by convicts who escaped from the custody of an unarmed corrections officer.
- Represented a city and its police department, as well as the city's legal department, in an action brought against the city and the State of New Hampshire on behalf of the estate of a woman murdered by a parolee who had been arrested previously by the city's police department for sexual assault and, at the time of the murder, was free on bail.
- Defended a town, its selectmen and its police department and three of its officers in constitutional and sex discrimination claims arising out of the department's handling of a domestic disturbance.
- Defended a municipality and one of its officers against constitutional claims brought by the estate of a suspect shot and killed by an officer responding to an emergency call.
- Represented a New Hampshire School District before the United States District Court in a case the decision of which affirmatively limited the obligation of all New Hampshire schools to provide only special education co-existent with federal law.
- Participated in the only civil jury trial in which a plaintiff claimed that a school district denied him a free appropriate public education (“FAPE”).
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