Legal Opinion
Rittenhouse Entertainment, Inc. v. City of Wilkes-Barre
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 19, 2012No. Civil Action No. 3:11-CV-617PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
A. RICHARD CAPUTO, District Judge.
Plaintiffs bring this suit alleging violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and Pennsylvania law, as well as several state tort claims. Three sets of Defendants move to dismiss: the “City Defendants” (the City of Wilkes-Barre, Thomas Leighton, Gerald Dessoye, J.J. Murphy, Tony Thomas Jr., Kathy Kane, William Barrett, Rick Cronauer, Michael Merritt, and Butch Frati); the “College Defendants” (King’s College, Father Thomas O’Hara, Robert McGonigle, Paul Lindenmuth, and John McAndrew); and the “County Defendants” (Luzerne County and Michael…
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