Legal Opinion
James Arlio v. Marlin J. Lively
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 17, 2007No. Docket 05-5779-cv(L); 05-5998-cv(CON)PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
Police officer James Arlio sued the Acting Chief of the Trumbull Police Department, Marlin Lively, in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Arterton, J.) for violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Arlio claimed that Lively, a Republican, suspended him on trumped-up charges because Arlio had the temerity to support local Democratic candidates for office. After trial, a jury found for Arlio and awarded him $250,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. Because we find that the district court abused its discretion by allowing…
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