City moves to dismiss Nichols lawsuit — again
RowVaughn Wells, the mother of Tyre Nichols, leaves the Odell Horton Federal Building after a jury found three former Memphis Police Department officers guilty on some of the federal charges they faced for their roles in the death of her son. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The city filed a motion on Monday, Feb. 17, to dismiss the suit, just like it did in 2023 when the lawsuit was filed.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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