Legal Opinion
Hightower v. United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 26, 2002No. 01 CIV. 3472(CM)PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER DISMISSING THE COMPLAINT FOR LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION
MCMAHON, District Judge.
In this action, Willie Hightower (“High-tower”), a federal employee with the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), seeks money damages from the United States, and the three individual defendants, based on alleged injuries sustained from mace or pepper spray used against him in the course of his arrest on April 26, 1999. He was arrested after he was stopped on the Montrose VA Hospital campus for driving his automobile in a reckless manner.
As a federal employee, plaintiff…
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