Legal Opinion
Wood v. Inc. Village of Patchogue
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided March 31, 2004No. 01-CV-0229(ADS)(ARL)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER
SPATT, District Judge.
This case arises out of claims by the plaintiff Donald R. Wood, Jr. (“Wood” or the “plaintiff’), on behalf of himself and a class of similarly situated persons, that the defendants the Village of Patchogue (“Pat-chogue” or the “Village”) and forty eight of its present and former officials and employees (collectively, the “defendants”) created a scheme under which they, under color of law, purported to enforce traffic and other laws and collect purported fines for alleged violations of those laws through *348a distinct enterprise in violation…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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