The lawyer, Matthew Donnelly, said he was working as a ride-share driver when the alleged incident occurred on September 7. He is seeking $150,000 for the “loss of his personal freedom of movement and ability to conduct his business for an appreciable amount of time together with stress, anxiety, apprehension and humiliation,” according to court documents.
According to Donnelly, he informed the driver of the van of the situation and pointed out there was “plenty of room in the parking lot for the van.” The driver allegedly told Donnelly he’d have to “wait a couple of minutes.”
The Patriot Ledger reported that the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School defines false imprisonment as confining a “plaintiff without the plaintiff’s consent and without authority of law.” According to Cornell, this includes confining someone in a manner in which the"means of escaping will result in the risk of physical harm to the detainee."
