#municipal-liability
#municipal-liability

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Oakland's 'tortious interference' bankrupted a coal company. Now the city could owe millions.

Oakland faces potential hundreds of millions in damages for tortiously interfering with a developer's efforts to build a coal export terminal.

Whittier agreed to a $7.5 million settlement after a jury found the city liable for a teacher's severe injuries from an upraised sidewalk.

Palo Alto will pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit after Officer Arturo Bravo struck Pamela McGavock in a crosswalk, causing serious spinal injuries.

Oakland settled for $7 million after a 2017 bike crash caused by a known pothole that left Ty Whitehead with severe long-term brain injury.

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