Legal Opinion
Tom U.U. Okure v. Javan Owens and Daniel G. Lessard
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 6, 1987No. 171, Docket 86-7343PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiff complained in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York that defendants Owen and Lessard, State University of New York police officers, battered and beat him during an arrest on the SUNY campus in Albany. Okure v. Owens, 625 F.Supp. 1568 (N.D.N.Y.1986). The arrest and alleged beating took place on January 27, 1984, and this civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) was filed twenty-two months later. The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint as barred by the claimed applicable one year New York statute…
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