Lawyers for the city of Sacramento and Stephon Clark’s children have reached a partial settlement of the Clark family’s $20 million lawsuit over the March 2018 shooting by police that killed the unarmed black man, federal court filings say.
Following a closed door session in federal court in Sacramento on Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman, “parties reached a verbal settlement” on behalf of Clark’s two young sons and their guardians, and all future court dates involving them were ordered vacated, according to court minutes of the session.
The minutes do not spell out whether a settlement has been reached with all the plaintiffs, including Clark’s parents or grandparents. A dollar amount for the verbal settlement was not released.