Eckert v. City of Buffalo

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK RACHEL ECKERT, Plaintiff, 22-CV-540-LJV v. AMENDED DECISION & ORDER1 CITY OF BUFFALO et al., Defendants. In March 2020, as COVID-19 turned the world upside down, two neighbors in the City of Buffalo—the pro se plaintiff, Rachel Eckert, and one of the defendants, Carolette Meadows—got into a dispute about a pipe. See Docket Item 58 at 143; see also Meadows v. Buffalo Police Dep’t, Case No. 21-cv-449, Docket Item 134 at 8-9 (W.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2023). The rest, as they say, is history—or, in this case, a series of state and federal…