Legal Opinion
Eagleston v. Guido
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 7, 1994No. 1719, Docket 93-9053PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-appellant Cecelia N. Eagleston alleges under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that the Suffolk County in the State of New York, and the County’s police, deprived her of equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to protect her from her husband, Thomas Eagleston, despite her numerous complaints that he was harassing her in violation of two orders of protection. In December 1986, Mr. Eagleston stabbed his wife 30 or more times. Mrs. Eagleston’s complaint charges that “defendant, County of Suffolk, acting through its police department, condoned a…
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