Mealey's (September 19, 2022, 11:17 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Finding that “the evidence adduced at trial did not show a custom or policy that amounted to deliberate indifference towards a constitutional right sufficient to support” a claim under Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, a federal judge in Georgia on Sept. 14 granted judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) to the city of Atlanta, reducing by $60 million a jury’s Aug. 26 award of $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages in a case involving a police officer’s use of excessive force involving a Taser....