Desiree Nanni v. Nicholas Tarpinian: A former University of Connecticut student who was rear-ended in traffic around Easter time a few years ago and suffered a low back injury was awarded more than $38,500 recently by a Litchfield jury.

On April 3, 2010, Desiree Nanni, an English major and religious studies minor at UConn was headed to the home of her grandmother, who had raised her, to spend Easter weekend, according to her lawyer, James R. Miron, of Zeisler & Zeisler in Bridgeport.