Lutz v. Lavelle

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CONABOY, Chief Judge.

On March 11, 1991, Plaintiffs filed the above-captioned civil rights action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343(3) and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1988, alleging that the Defendants entered into an “unlawful conspiracy ... with the intention of creating the false and damaging appearance that Plaintiff Leininger had committed criminal acts.” (Doc. No. 1, p. 8). At the time Plaintiffs filed their complaint, they named five Defendants, inter alia, The Honorable John P. Lavelle, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Carbon County;…