A business owner who sued for retaliation and malicious prosecution after she was taken into police custody following a parking dispute in Pittsburgh has won a $450,000 jury verdict against Allegheny County.
Marsha Simonds of Upper St. Clair, whose family in 2016 bought a parking lot in the 4700 block of Murray Avenue in the city’s Greenfield section, was charged with disorderly conduct in the summer of 2019.
At the time, the entrance to District Judge James Hanley’s office was in the lot, and for the first three years the Simonds family owned it, court visitors parked there without permission…