Jury rejects suit by tennis ump cleared in husband's death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit by a professional tennis umpire who claimed a coroner's doctor recklessly classified her husband's death as a homicide, leading investigators to falsely accuse her of murder.
Jurors found that Lois Goodman's civil rights were not violated and determined Deputy Medical Examiner Yulai Wang did not falsify the death certificate for Alan Goodman.
Lois Goodman was on her way to officiate a U.S. Open tennis match in New York in 2012 when police arrested her in front of TV cameras on suspicion of killing her husband. All charges against her were eventually dropped.