Legal Opinion
Arnold v. County of Nassau
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 10, 2000No. 0:93-cv-04800PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BLOCK, District Judge.
The Court must decide whether to let stand a $900,000 jury verdict for the plaintiff, Steven W. Arnold (“Arnold”), against the municipal defendants, The County of Nassau and The Sheriff of Nassau County (collectively “County”), for failing to protect him from being assaulted and severely beaten by fellow inmates while being held as a pre-trial detainee at the Nassau County Correctional Center (“jail”) on a rape charge. 1 The jury determined that liability was warranted against the County, but not against any of the individual correction officer…
2Cases cited67 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Graham v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- City of Canton v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Arnold v. County Of NassauCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- Arnold v. County of NassauCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- Wassmann v. County of UlsterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
- Underwood v. B-E Holdings, Inc.District Court, W.D. New York · 2003
- Wassmann v. County of UlsterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016