Legal Opinion
Brown v. County of Westchester
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 22, 1993No. Nos. 93 Civ 2700 (VLB); 92 Civ 8367 (VLB)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
These cases present the question of the proper response of the federal courts when a police officer and a correction officer sue each other in separate lawsuits based on events involving the conduct of each while on duty.1
II
Plaintiff Woodrow Brown (“Brown”), a Yonkers police officer, participated in an arrest of the defendant Harry Bannister (“Bannister”) a Westchester County Correction Officer who was then off duty, in July of 1990. Bannister and another person, both of whom had been drinking, were stopped while driving and detained for…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Memphis Community School District v. StachuraSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Pinter v. DahlSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Louis Batista, Manuel Padin and Felix Padin, Jr. v. Michael Rodriguez, Robert J. Nadrizny and the City of Bridgeport, the City of BridgeportCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Chemical Bank v. Affiliated FM InsuranceDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1994