Legal Opinion
Barbieri v. Hartsdale Post Office
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 5, 1994No. 94 Civ 2891 (VLB)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
This case presents the difficult problem of how to treat small claims against federal agencies brought by individual citizens who are unaware of legal technicalities. While individual claims such as that here for $270.20 are small, in the aggregate the effect of how the United States treats such matters is highly pertinent to how its citizens regard their government. To fail to seek workable means of dealing with small claims that come into the federal courts would be to disregard the fact pointed out by Judge Edward Weinfeld of this court…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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