MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
KNAPP, District Judge.
This is an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Plaintiff claims that on September 15, 1978 defendant, acting in his capacity as a court officer of Brooklyn Criminal Court and under color of State law, "subjected the plaintiff to unlawful assault and battery, and did unlawfully arrest and detain plaintiff, thereby depriving him of his rights as secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States...
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