Legal Opinion
Zoila Contreras and Yolanda Siliezar v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 2, 1982No. 735, Docket 81-6186PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiffs-Appellants Zoila Contreras and Yolanda Siliezar appeal from a May 26, 1981 judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jacob Mishler, Judge), dismissing their claim for damages against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680. The complaint sought damages for an allegedly unlawful warrantless arrest of plaintiffs and a warrantless search of their apartment by officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
INS officers received an anonymous tip that three persons living in a third-floor apartment in Brooklyn…
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