Legal Opinion
Fusco v. Connecticut
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 26, 1987No. 1503, Docket 86-7075PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut granting defendants’ oral motion to dismiss the complaint in a lawsuit brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) in which plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to redress alleged violations of their rights under the fourteenth amendment. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Since the court below dismissed the complaint at the conclusion of a hearing on plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, at which no evidence was introduced, we accept the allegations of the…
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