Legal Opinion
Pahler v. City of Wilkes-Barre
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 13, 2002No. 01-2275UnknownCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
Charles Pahler appeals from the District Court’s dismissal of his complaint brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Wilkes-Barre (“City”), its Mayor, Thomas D. McGroarty (“McGroarty”), and its Chief of Police, William Barrett (“Barrett”), alleging a violation of the substantive due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pahler, a City police officer, was ordered to participate in a drug raid during which he sustained severe injuries from a buckshot from a shotgun of a fellow police officer who neglected to set the safety…
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