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AMATO v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 80-1255.

549 F.Supp. 863 (1982)

Vincent AMATO, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Donald E. Alman; Ralph L. Frank; Glenn Woodeshick; Louis Giovanetti; and Fourteen Unknown Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

October 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownstein, Gold, Booth & Barry by Joyce C. Booth, and Howard Brownstein, Jersey City, N.J., for plaintiff.

W. Hunt Dumont, U.S. Atty. by Judy Sello, and Bette Uhrmacher, Asst. U.S. Attys., Newark, N.J., for defendants.

OPINION

SAROKIN, District Judge.

This is an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act for damages sustained by the plaintiff as the result of his being severely injured by gunfire during a bank robbery in which he was one of the principal participants. Plaintiff alleges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") was negligent in that it did not apprehend him earlier for a lesser crime and that it utilized unreasonable and excessive force in apprehending...

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