Legal Opinion
Joseph Brewer v. M. Prentiss Blackwell
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 29, 1982No. 81-3627PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
On a winter day in 1978, four young men working for a company engaged in pruning trees were sent to dump a load of what they thought to be tree branches at a rural landfill. Their arrest on the felony charge of contaminating water supplies, see La. Rev.Stat.Ann. 14:58 (West 1974), because the load they dumped contained garbage, led to this suit for $1.5 million in compensatory and $1.5 million in punitive damages. They sued a justice of the peace, the mayor of the town in whose jail they were confined, the town’s chief of police, and the town both for violation…
2Cases cited59 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- United Mine Workers of America v. GibbsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Baker v. McCollanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by106 opinions
- Hudson v. PalmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- John Russell Webster, Cross-Appellants v. The City of Houston, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1984
- Henry J. Bennett, Jr. v. City of Slidell, Gerry Hinton, B.E. McDaniel Nunzio Giordano, and Patrick J. BerriganCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1984
- Josiah Haynesworth and Fred Hancock v. Frank P. Miller, Chief, Law Enforcement Section, Office of the Corporation Counsel, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1987
- Moore v. BrewsterCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
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