Legal Opinion
Joan Cody v. Keith Mello and Thomas Murray
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 26, 1995No. 1604, Docket 94-9210PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
Keith Mello and Thomas Murray appeal from a default judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Daly, J.) awarding Joan Cody $54,694.40. For the reasons that follow we vacate and remand.
On June 9, 1989, defendants, Connecticut police officers, searched Cody’s apartment in Hamden, Connecticut pursuant to a valid warrant authorizing the search for and seizure of narcotics and related items. On September 20, 1991, Cody sued defendants in their individual capacities alleging that they “unnecessarily and unreasonably tore apart…
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