Ryan Ryan Deluca LLP regularly represents municipal police departments, land use boards and commissions, and municipalities in a variety of constitutional and civil rights claims, including false arrest, excessive force, failure to protect, equal protection, due process, unconstitutional takings, and employment matters. Our lawyers also have extensive practical experience in the area, serving or having served as members of local police commissions, planning and zoning commissions, and zoning boards of appeal.

In 2007, one of our lawyers authored an article for the Defense Research Institute monthly magazine, For the Defense, entitled "Failure to Protect Cases Post Castle Rock v. Gonzalez," analyzing a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision, which held that third parties do not have an enforceable property interest in the enforcement of restraining orders.

Representative cases handled by the firm include:

• the successful defense of a town and its police officers in connection with the shooting and killing of a woman and her nine-month-old fetus by her estranged boyfriend;
• defense of municipal officials and police officers in lawsuit brought by a number of day laborers claiming various civil rights violations;
• defense of a municipality and its police officer in connection with a use of deadly force against a fleeing felon;
• defense of a police officer in a Fourth Amendment unreasonable search and seizure claim as a result of a mistaken entry into the wrong apartment while executing a valid warrant;
• defense of police officers in case alleging unlawful arrest, unlawful search and seizure, as well as due process and equal protection violations in connection with the seizure of the plaintiffs’ animals;
• defense of municipality and its employees in connection with alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act before the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.