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GORDON v. WATLEY

No. 81 Civ. 5677 (MEL).

624 F.Supp. 1138 (1986)

Eddie Lee GORDON, Plaintiff, v. Officer WATLEY, Officer Witsell, Thomas Coughlin, III, Superintendent Harold J. Smith, Superintendent Wilson E.J. Walters, County of Nassau and John and/or Jane Does Nos. 1-20, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for plaintiff; Mark G. Cunha, Pamela L. Weisberg, of counsel.

Edward G. McCabe, Co. Atty. of Nassau County, Mineola, N.Y., for Officer Watley, Officer Witsell, and Nassau County; Michael L. Chartan, Deputy Co. Atty., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants Coughlin, Smith and Walters; Lillian Z. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

Eddie Lee Gordon sues pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) claiming violation of his rights under the fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution, and pursuant to the common law of New York alleging wrongful arrest, seizure, transportation and imprisonment by Charles Watley, Nathaniel Witsell and Nassau County ("the Nassau defendants"), by Thomas Coughlin III, Harold J. Smith, and Wilson E.J. Walters ("the...

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