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LAKE PLACID - A lawsuit against two local Lake Placid police officers for alleged abuse has been settled out of court.

The civil complaint goes back to Jan. 21, 2012, when Taryn Stanfa, a woman from Watertown and a North County Community College student at the time, claims she was assaulted by village Patrolman James D. Staats and that another patrolman Matthew J. Braunius, did not stop his fellow officer. Stanfa said Staats roughed her up, allegedly throwing her to the ground, and unlawfully searched her and seized her property.

The police department and village have disputed the claim, and a court battle has proceeded for the past two years.

Matt Norfolk, a Lake Placid lawyer who represented Stanfa, said Thursday, Dec. 4 that the case was settled out of court in June.

Norfolk would not disclose how much money his client received. Stanfa had asked for $1 million in punitive damages.

"The client is satisfied, and it's over," Norfolk said.

Jonathan M. Bernstein, a lawyer from Goldberg, Segalla law firm in Albany, represented the village. Bernstein said he had no comment.

Lake Placid Police Department Chief William Moore also offered no comment.

When a case is settled out of court, many details are kept out of court documents and aren't always public record. Some settlements also have confidentiality agreements between the parties involved.

The sister newspaper of the Lake Placid News, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, sent a Freedom of Information Law request to the Jefferson County Administrative Office to try to find out how much money the case settled for. The case's venue had been changed from Essex County to Jefferson County.