The D.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the city must pay a psychologist $450,000 after he was improperly arrested and detained for his involvement in a road-rage-fueled fender bender with an off-duty police officer.

Steven Tulin was driving his Porsche in Columbia Heights in 2004 when he was rear-ended by off-duty Det. Barbara Rauf, who was driving her son to school in a Honda.

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