Police Agency Alleges Taser Company Misled About Safety of Stuns

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

One day after a West Palm Beach, Fla., police officer using a Taser gun shot a man, who later died, a Boca Raton, Fla., law firm filed a national class action suit alleging that police departments have been misled about the device's safety.

The suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Chicago by Paul Geller, a partner at Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins in Boca Raton. It claims that police departments around the country developed policies on Taser use based on the manufacturer's false and improperly researched claims that the stun guns are nonlethal.

The only named plaintiff in the suit so far is the police department of Dolton, Ill., a largely black Chicago community with 26,000 residents. No suspects have died as a result of Taser use by the Dolton Police Department, but Chief Ron Burge suspended use of Taser stun guns in May. Burge could not be reached for comment.

The suit alleges breach of contract, breach of warranty and unjust enrichment by the defendant based on bogus safety claims and false and deceptive representation of material facts concerning the product's safety.

More: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1121763921063

(This isn't about the gun, it's about corporate misrepresentation which has caused death)