Legal Opinion
Black, Elwood W., Sr. And Black, Joyce v. Stephens, Wayne and City of Allentown and Gable, Carson
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided November 3, 1981No. 80-2621PublishedCited by 219 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge.
Appellees, Elwood and Joyce Black, filed this section 1983 civil rights action against appellants, Wayne Stephens, Carson Gable, and the City of Allentown, as a result of a confrontation between the Blacks and Detective Stephens on March 21, 1977. The Blacks claimed that Stephens, a plainclothes detective with the Allentown police force, violated their' constitutional rights, initially by the use of excessive force in an incident at 10th and Lehigh Streets in Allentown and later by the filing of three unwarranted charges. Gable, then chief…
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