Legal Opinion
Leather v. Ten Eyck
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 24, 2001No. 00-7703(L)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*146 SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, it is ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgement of the district court be and hereby it is AFFIRMED.
I. BACKGROUND
Defendants Michael Ten Eyck, Thomas Lindert, Carmine Restivo, Jr. & Robert Thoubboron (the “individual defendants”), and the County of Putnam (the “County”) appeal from a jury verdict finding that defendants subjected John Leather (the “plaintiff”) to selective prosecution in retaliation for the exercise of his right to free speech guaranteed under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, all in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1988. A summary of…
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