Legal Opinion
Connell v. Signoracci
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 21, 1998No. Nos. 96-7955(L), 96-9125 and 96-9455PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs-appellees Robert Connell and Valerie LaPointe were (respectively) the landlord and the owner-operator of two topless dancing bars located in the neighboring .towns of Cohoes and Troy, New York. They allege that the defendants-appellants — the mayor "of Cohoes, municipal officials of Co-hoes and Troy, and an investigator for the Albany County District Attorney’s office— violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by infringing (and by conspiring to infringe) plaintiffs’ rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Mayor Robert Signoracci and the other remaining individual…
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