Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Ferguson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 6, 1990No. 89-1405PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSON, Senior District Judge.
Appellant asserts that the District Court erred in dismissing her cause of action under Rule 12(b)(6). The thrust of appellant’s claim is that appellees, a municipality, the city police department, and municipal and police department employees, acted in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and in violation of provisions of the Arkansas Constitution, through the course of conduct they took with regard to plaintiffs decedents, Valerie D. Downen and Geraldine H. Downen. According to the pleadings, Geraldine…
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