Legal Opinion
Davis v. Velez
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 4, 2015No. 14-1826PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEARSE, Circuit Judge:
Defendants Javier Velez and James Lukeson, officers in the New York City Pólice Department (“NYPD”), and defendant Gary Calhoun, an NYPD sergeant,, appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York following a jury trial before Jack B. Weinstein, Judge, ordering Velez and Lukeson each to pay plaintiff Leroy Davis $180,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, and ordering Calhoun to pay Davis $200,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, on Davis’s claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for false arrest, malicious…
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