Legal Opinion
Burke v. Twp. of Cheltenham
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 5, 2010No. Civil Action 10-1508PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
DALZELL, District Judge.
Plaintiff Francis W. Burke (“Burke”) sues defendants — consisting of the Township of Cheltenham (“Township”) and a group of police officers working for the Township — on an array of federal civil rights and pendent state tort claims arising out of Burke’s April 6, 2008 arrest for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Burke alleges that he was unnecessarily restrained, strip searched, and physically assaulted in the course of his arrest, and then charged, without basis, with further criminal offenses in retaliation for filing a complaint about the April 6…
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