Legal Opinion
Pitrone v. Mercadante
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 30, 1976No. Civ. 75-2455PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DITTER, District Judge.
I. Introduction and Factual Background
Plaintiff filed this civil rights action against the Township of Warminster, Pennsylvania, its chief of police and various named and unnamed police officers, alleging their responsibility for his unconstitutional arrest, detention and beating. The complaint, as amended, rests on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourth and Eighth Amendments as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, with this court’s jurisdiction based on 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) & (4) as to the individual defendants and 28 U.S.C. § 1331 as to the township.…
2Cases cited52 opinions
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- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Bell v. HoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Turpin v. MailetCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
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