A man who was severely injured in a 2022 police shooting at his home in Cherokee County won’t see a resolution to his civil suit until August 2025 at the earliest, according to a recent filing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
The lawsuit, filed in June 2023, named 31 defendants representing the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Cherokee Indian Police Department. A December ruling whittled that list of defendants down to 29 people or entities who are together facing more than 200 claims that could be worth millions of dollars.
On Feb. 8, U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Carleton Metcalf issued a scheduling order that lays out a timeline toward the lawsuit’s conclusion. Reports from expert witnesses are due on Aug. 30 for the plaintiffs and Oct. 25 for the defendants, with discovery to be complete by Feb. 4, 2025, and mediation by Feb. 21, 2025.
Should the case go to trial, it’s expected to take eight days to adjudicate and is scheduled for the first available session beginning on or after Aug. 4, 2025.
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