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Bryan Stow

The city of San Francisco is suing the Dodgers for $1.2 million for unpaid medical bills for Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who was beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot on opening day in March 2011.

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stow-and-kidsSAN FRANCISCO — Bryan Stow, the father of 2 who was viciously beaten in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium, has suffered a setback.

Stow is hospitalized again because of a “large blood clot.”

On their website, family members say the clot is from Stow’s thigh to his pelvis.

He was initially hospitalized earlier this week and then released, only to be rushed back again 2 days ago.

“Needless to say, we are scared and worried. We thought we were past the point of being afraid of Bryan even surviving,” the website entry read.

Stow is expected to be in the hospital at least through the weekend.

Stow suffered permanent brain damage in the 2011 attack.

Louie Sanchez, 29, and Marvin Norwood, 30, pleaded not guilty to the beating in November.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) — A lawsuit filed by a man arrested, then cleared, in the brutal beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow has been dismissed.

Giovanni Ramirez filed the defamation suit against the LAPD and Chief Charlie Beck in July.

According to court documents, Ramirez alleges Beck convicted him in the public eye without any forensic evidence.

Beck called Ramirez the “primargiovanni-stowy aggressor” and a “thug,” according to court documents filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

“Beck knew … that each and every statement was false or that he was acting with reckless disregard for the truth,” court documents state.

But on Monday, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess dismissed the case.

Feess dismissed the case based on the fact Ramirez was never criminally charged and therefore suffered no violation of due process.

Feess also ruled that Ramirez’s 4th Amendment rights were not violated when his residence was searched because he was on parole and subject to search conditions.

Stow, a paramedic and father of 2 was beaten into a coma in a Dodger Stadium parking lot on opening day last summer and was hospitalized for months.

He continues to recover in Northern California.

Two other men, Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, were later arrested and charged in connection with the Stow beating.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — San Francisco General Hospital is suing the Los Angeles Dodgers and former owner Frank McCourt for medical costs related to the beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow.

The San Francisco Examiner reports the hospital is asking for $1.2 million to cover the cost of providing Stow’s extensive brain trauma care.

The beating happened in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in March of last year following the Dodgers’ home opener versus the Giants.

It left Stow, a paramedic and father of two from Santa Cruz, with permanent brain damage.

The two men accused in Stow’s beating appeared in court on Tuesday morning for brief a pre-trial hearing.

The next hearing date for Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood was set for Feb. 21.

Both suspects are charged with three felony counts: for mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery with serious bodily injury.

Sanchez also faces allegations that he inflicted great bodily injury on Stow in the assault and battery counts.

He has also been charged with two additional misdemeanor counts — one for battery related to a run-in with a female Giants fan and one for assault on a young man at whom he allegedly swung a fist.

Both Sanchez and Norwood have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

Earlier this year, a judge ruled there was enough evidence for the men to stand trial after a six-day preliminary hearing that included some dramatic testimony.

On the first day of the hearing, prosecutors showed a video of Norwood sitting in an interrogation room, speaking to his mother on an LAPD detective’s cellphone.

“Hey, I got arrested for that Dodger Stadium thing,” the Norwood says. “I was involved …. To a certain extent I was.”

He tells his mother he can’t say much over the phone but says Sanchez is also in custody.

Norwood then apologizes: “Pretty sure I’m going down for it …. I’m sorry.”

The hearing also included testimony from Corey Maciel, Stow’s friend and a fellow paramedic who was at the game.

He said that Stow was attacked after he used medical slang to express his disgust with a group of Dodgers fans who were taunting them.

Maciel said Stow made the comment after their group had endured hours of heckling and thrown food inside the stadium.

He quoted Stow as saying “I hope they code” — shorthand for suffering cardiac arrest.

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