Legal Opinion
STOECKLEY v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 31, 2010No. 09 Civ. 7600(LAK)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.
This Section 1983 action is a product of bad judgment. The plaintiffs, on their own telling of the tale, exercised remarkably poor judgment in attempting to interfere in what they perceived to be a domestic dispute by throwing a bottle at the man involved instead of calling the police. The man involved, an off-duty police officer, exercised equally bad judgment, if plaintiffs are telling the truth, by approaching and then drawing his pistol on and threatening the plaintiffs.
The matter is before the Court on the motion of defendant The City of…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- City of Canton v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Papasan v. AllainSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Daniels v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
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