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Appeals court: Suit may proceed over Dallas death in custody

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By TERRY WALLACE
Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling and said a family’s lawsuit can proceed over the 2016 death of a Dallas man in police custody. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in an opinion filed Friday that the family of Tony Timpa may proceed with their suit against four Dallas police officers. The family accuses one officer of using excessive force on Timpa and the others of wrongly failing to intervene. A federal judge in Dallas threw out the lawsuit, citing qualified immunity doctrine protecting the officers from liability. But the appeals court panel disagreed with his rationale.

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