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PERRY, NORMAN JOHN v. EDWARDS, JAMES W.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • determining intentional collision during a police chase was not an intervening and superseding cause absolving the defendant of liability
  • addressing restitution damages to the officer’s vehicle caused by use of a PIT maneuver
  • referring to “an officer’s execution of a ‘pursuit intervention technique,’ or PIT, maneuver”
  • “[M]any of our criminal restitution cases employ the causation test applicable in ordinary tort settings.”
  • “The district court is afforded broad discretion in determining the amount of restitution when the record contains proof of a reasonable basis from which the amount may be inferred.”

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