Legal Opinion
Myers v. Davis
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided December 4, 1978No. CIV-4-78-24PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
NEESE, District Judge.
This is a civil action for money damages for the deprivation of the plaintiff’s civil rights, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). The complaint alleges that, on an isolated occasion, the two individual defendants, as police officers for the city of Cowan, Tennessee and acting under color of Tennessee law, used an excessive and unreasonable amount of force upon him. The plaintiff contends that the defendant municipality “ * * * is liable for the said acts of the officers by virtue of Tennessee Code Annotated § 6-640, 1 upon which statute…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- John E. Jones v. City of Memphis, TennesseeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1978
3Cited by7 opinions
- Jenkins v. CarruthDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1982
- Metadure Corp. v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1980
- Cook v. BatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1981
- Berndt v. StinsonDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1982
- Hill v. United StatesDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1984
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