WILLIAMS v. BAXTER

No. CIV-2-81-28.

536 F.Supp. 13 (1981)

Debra WILLIAMS, etc., Plaintiff, v. Dana BAXTER, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

On Motion for Dismissal of Certain May 22, 1981.

On Further Motion to Dismiss June 9, 1981.

On Concession of Dismissal August 25, 1981.

Stipulation of Dismissal April 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry M. Siciliand, and Art Roberts, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn. and J. Randall Shelton, Morristown, Tenn., for petitioner.

Richard C. Jessee and John F. Dugger, Morristown, Tenn., for defendants.


On Motion for Dismissal of Certain Defendants May 22, 1981.

MEMORANDUM TO COUNSEL

NEESE, District Judge.

The plaintiff's decedent appears from this record in its entirety to have been a citizen who was killed by law-enforcement officers, acting under color of a Tennessee statute or an ordinance of one of its municipalities, by the use of an excessive and unreasonable amount of force. If this was indeed the situation and the individual defendants...

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