Legal Opinion
Wright v. City of Reno
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided October 28, 1981No. CIV-R-80-277-ECRPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
This is a civil rights action, asserting violations of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985 and 1986. The amended complaint alleges that the plaintiff, a juvenile, was stopped on a private parking lot by defendant Lloyd Birchett, a Reno police officer working there as a security guard. Birchett accused the plaintiff of reckless driving there the previous night. According to the pleading, defendant Birchett seized the keys out of the ignition switch and, when the plaintiff remonstrated, he battered the plaintiff with a flashlight. The plaintiff was placed under…
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