Legal Opinion
Thomas Zarcone v. William M. Perry, James Windsor, Robert J. Anderson and Patrick Giambalvo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 3, 1978No. 591, Docket 77-7469PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:
In this unusual civil rights case, William M. Perry, a former judge of the District Court of Suffolk County, appeals from a verdict in favor of plaintiff Thomas Zarcone, after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, before Chief Judge Jacob Mishler. The basis of Zarcone’s suit was that Perry and other defendants 1 had deprived plaintiff of his constitutional rights in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The jury awarded plaintiff $80,000 compensatory damages against Perry and Sheriff James Windsor, $60,000 punitive damages…
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3Cited by145 opinions
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