Legal Opinion
Trotman v. Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 27, 1977No. 470, Docket 76-7498PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARTELS, District Judge:
Plaintiffs bring this civil rights action against Palisades Interstate Park Commission (“Commission”) and three officers of the Commission under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988, alleging jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343, seeking compensatory and punitive damages of $600,000 predicated upon false arrest, illegal search and seizure and certain pendent state claims of prima facie tort and defamation.
The facts inferred from the rather vague allegations of the complaint, which we accept as true, are as follows: On June 15, 1974, plaintiff Franklin Mitchell was…
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