Legal Opinion
Tompkins v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 10, 2014No. 12 CV 7771(VB)PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION
BRICCETTI, District Judge.
In January 2012, plaintiff James Tompkins was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree (“OGA”) and reckless endangerment in the second degree. Those charges were eventually dismissed. He now brings this action against the City of New York (the “City”) and four police officers employed by the City’s Department of Environmental Protection (the “DEP”) — defendants Marsha Thomas Knights, John Pace, Carlos Whearty, and Charles Spruck (the “Individual Defendants”) — asserting constitutional claims under 42…
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