Two Austin-based complex business litigators secured a civil damages verdict against a St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s deputy who in 2020 threatened to shock with a Taser a 14-year-old boy who was recording his mother’s arrest.
A jury in the U.S. District for the Eastern District of Louisiana awarded $185,000 to De’Shaun Johnson for intentional infliction of emotional distress under a Louisiana statute.