Legal Opinion
Tedesco v. City of Stamford
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided April 2, 1991No. 7322PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connell, J.
The defendant city of Stamford1 appeals, after a trial to the court, from a judgment awarding damages and attorney’s fees to the plaintiff2 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This case comes to us on remand from the Connecticut Supreme Court.
This matter was initially before this court in June of 1989,3 when we directed judgment for the city on the ground that the plaintiff’s amended complaint failed to set out a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Supreme Court reversed,4 holding that a § 1983 *379cause of action existed, and remanded the matter to us for further proceedings.5
The plaintiff in this…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Carey v. PiphusSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Memphis Community School District v. StachuraSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by55 opinions
- Parsons v. United Technologies Corp.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1997
- Doe v. Yale UniversitySupreme Court of Connecticut · 2000
- Normand Josef Enterprises, Inc. v. Connecticut National BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1994
- Tedesco v. City of StamfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1992
- Service Road Corp. v. QuinnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1997
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