Do I have a viable lawsuit?

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Be sure and tell the Attorney General's office that all the police did was cite the staff for harassment.

He or she may also wonder why if you told the police when you called them, presumably on your cell phone, that people had trapped you in an office and were physically assaulting you, it took the police an hour to respond (you indicated you were trapped in the office for an hour) and when they did, all they did was issue a citation for harassment, not assault, not holding you against your will.

My problem is that I'm asking the things you should be asked IF you go to court and you resent it because you don't have the answers. You don't have medical reports to prove you were assaulted. You only have a citation for harassment.


Tag it and bag it. You're done.

 

[CdwJava]

I am curious ... what kind of papers did they want you to leave with them?

The only thing I can see them getting worked up about would be that if you were trying to take off with the transaction of a sale that they helped broker or participate in at one end or the other. I suppose that they thought they had a right to those papers and they thought they were making a lawful detention, then the police may have decided harassment was more appropriate.

Now,CAN you sue for false imprisonment and battery? Probably. But, as everyone here has mentioned, you have to articulate damages. If you have no damages to point to, how much of an award would you expect a jury to assign? Of course, you would also have to prevail at trial. And not knowing the other side of the coin, that outcome is not certain.

As previously mentioned, a lawsuit is about money to make people whole. Yes, I suppose a judge coul dget them to agree to a written apology, too, but how much are you willing to spend in a lawsuit to get an apology?

- Carl

 

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The staff of the real estate office supposedly wanted the OP's papers in case the company was audited. I wish an attorney whose specialty is real estate would come along and explain why individuals would band together to assault and hold prisoner someone who wanted to take his or her documents and leave. If something illegal is going on, the last thing the office should want to do is attract attention to itself by being charged with false imprisonment and assault.

 

[CdwJava]

This is why I suspect that he was leaving with the only copies of some real estate transaction or title papers ... something is missing. Obviously the offce staff truly believed they had a legal right to the documents.

- Carl

 

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There's a lot missing in the story, including credibility.