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File #: 211904    Version: 0
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/22/2022 In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 4/19/2022
Effective date:    
Title: Resolution authorizing settlement of claims in the lawsuit entitled Holifield v. Kulwich, et al., Case No. 18-CV-801-BHL.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: SUITS SETTLEMENT
Attachments: 1. Common Council Payment Letter, 2. fiscal doc

Number

211904

Version

ORIGINAL

Reference

Sponsor

THE CHAIR

Title

Resolution authorizing settlement of claims in the lawsuit entitled Holifield v. Kulwich,  et al., Case No. 18-CV-801-BHL.

 

Analysis

This resolution authorizes a settlement payment in the Holifield v. Kulwich et al., Case No. 18-CV-801-BHL in the amount of $8,000.00.

 

Body

Whereas, the plaintiff, Al Holifield, civil rights lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee and four of its police officers, seeking an unspecified amount in damages for the unreasonable search of his residence after a traffic stop that occurred on June 22, 2016; and

 

Whereas, the plaintiffs have agreed to settle their claims against the City of Milwaukee and its former officer through a settlement agreement providing for payment of the total amount of $8,000.00; and

 

Whereas, the City Attorney recommends and the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee deems it expeditious and just to pay a settlement of the claims against it and its officers in this lawsuit; now, therefore, be it

 

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee that the proper City officials be and are hereby authorized and directed to issue a City check in the amount of $8,000.00 payable to the order of Kravit, Hovel & Krawczyk, s.c. IOLTA Trust Account, Al Holifield, Jr., in full and final settlement of all monetary damages sought in this lawsuit, including reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, on receipt of a Release of Claims, approved as to form and execution by the City Attorney, said amount to be charged to the Damages and Claims Fund, Account No. 636505, Fund No. 0001, Organization No. 1490, Program No. 2632, Sub Class No. S118; and, be it

 

Further Resolved, That the funding of the settlement amount will be authorized by a resolution contemporaneously approved by the Common Council, and that the proper City officers are authorized to make the necessary transfers to the appropriate accounts or funds to disburse the settlement amount.

 

Requestor

City Attorney

Drafter

HHH

March 15, 2022