Legal Opinion
Comfort v. Town of Pittsfield
District Court, D. Maine
Decided April 12, 1996No. Civ. 95-106-BPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
BRODY, District Judge.
This suit arises out of the May 15, 1993 arrest of Plaintiff Kenneth Comfort in Pitts-field, Maine. Comfort sues Officers Wilfred Dodge, Christopher Tremblay and Mary Heath of the Pittsfield Police Department, Pittsfield Police Chief William Lawrence, and the Town of Pittsfield for violations of his state and federal constitutional rights, under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1988, 5 M.R.S.A. § 4682 and 14 M.R.S.A. §§ 8101-8118. Comfort also alleges violations of his state statutory rights and asserts common law claims for negligence, assault,…
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