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Alumna Awarded $200,500 in Civil Suit 3 OPINION by Banks Albach Rights on Feb NMI 05 SPARTAN DAILY Serving San Jose State University since VOLUME 124. NUMBER 19 WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 2007; the his at NM X hiut Alumna awarded $200,500 in civil suit 3 OPINION By Banks Albach rights on Feb. 9, 2001, at a Sigma most people don't have the cour- After that. 15 San Jose Police McIntyre asked for the officer's I a Guest Column Daily Stuff Writer Pi house party. age to do," Kallis said. "They Department officers and three badge number. She touched his Remembering ids McIntyre's lawyer, Jeff Kallis, felt something that happened %sus CM% er,it Police Department badge vs ith tvvo fingers in order to Hunter S.Thompson p. 2 said an officer struck her with a wrong and they stood up not only Officers arrived at the scene and read the number and that is when d a A San Jose State University flashlight and mistreated her dur- to protect their rights, hut to pro- attempted to break up the Sigma Pi things took a turn for the worse. aid alumna was awarded $200.500 in ing arrest. Her husband, Brian tect everybody 's rights." party. Kalil. said. Campus police Kallis said. compensatory damages by a fed- McIntyre, an SJSU alumnus, was Kane,. %%hi, is also a professor claim that Sigma Pi asked for as- At this point, the officer hit eral district court jury Tuesday. in also at the party. in the SIM.' College of Business. sistance in clearing the party. vs hile McIntyre with his flashlight, of slammed her a civil rights case against the city After waiting more than four said the events on that night four Sigma Pi denies this, Kallis said. handcuffed her and it - of San Jose that lasted nearly a years, plaintiff attorney Jeff Kallis years ago started when a group of One ollicer asked MsInt)re to against the car before putting her month. highlights the long and difficult uninv iTed people tried to enter the lease .ind she refused. Kallis said. in the hack seat of the patrol unit. The eight -person jury, bal- road experienced by McIntyre and party at Sigma Pi house. Some of claiming that she seas siiher and McIntyre said. anced by gender, found the San her husband. the traternity members flagged ss as %%ailing for her fiance The "It's just been a really. horrible 12 Expletive Deleted Jose Police Department liable for "These young people who had doss!) police car for assistance, otticet continued to ask Stiffly re four years." she said, adding that n - Johnson's departure long overdue false arrest, battery after arrest and no experience in the legal system. but the indiv 'duals in question to leave. raising his voice and us- p. 2 violating Laura McIntyre's civil stood up and did something that were ;timid) gone, he said. ing profanity. 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