Legal Opinion
Arnold v. City of Philadelphia
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 21, 2015No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 14-2598PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WENDY BEETLESTONE, District Judge.
The case arises out of an encounter in 2011 between Plaintiff Crystal Arnold (nee Snider) and Philadelphia police officers in which Arnold was taken into custody and later released, and after which Plaintiff was abducted and raped by an unknown third party. Plaintiff brings this action against Police Officer Joseph Guinan (“Guinan”) and Police Officer Nicole Eng-gasser1 (“Enggasser”) (collectively, “the officers”), alleging claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for state-created danger, which violated her Fourteenth Amendment rights, and state law claims for…
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