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RITTENHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT v. CITY OF WILKES-BARRE

Civil Action No. 3:11-CV-617.

861 F.Supp.2d 470 (2012)

RITTENHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.; The Mines, Inc.; G Net Comm. Co.; Phoenix Estates; and Thomas J. Greco, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF WILKES-BARRE; Thomas Leighton, individually and as Mayor of Wilkes-Barre; Gerald Dessoye, individually and as Chief of Police of Wilkes-Barre; J.J. Murphy, individually and as City Administrator of Wilkes-Barre; Tony Thomas, Jr., Kathy Kane, William Barret, Rick Cronauer, and Michael Merritt, individually and as Members of the Wilkes-Barre City Council; Butch Frati, individually and as Director of Operations of Wilkes-Barre; Luzerne County; Michael Savokinas, individually and as Luzerne County Sheriff; King's College; and Father Thomas J. O'Hara, Robert McGonigle, Paul Lindenmuth, and John McAndrew, individually and as Officers and Employees of Kings College, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

March 19, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Kresky, New York, NY, Howard A. Rothenberg, Herlands Rothenberg & Levine, Scranton, PA, for Plaintiffs.

Donald H. Brobst, Thomas J. Campenni, Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald, John G. Dean, Elliott Greenleaf & Dean, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Deborah H. Simon, Elliott, Greenleaf & Siedzikowski, Blue Bell, PA, David L. Schwalm, Thomas, Thomas & Hafer, L.L.P., Harrisburg, PA, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM

A. RICHARD CAPUTO, District Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this suit alleging violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and Pennsylvania law, as well as several state tort claims. Three sets of Defendants move to dismiss: the "City Defendants" (the City of Wilkes-Barre, Thomas Leighton, Gerald Dessoye, J.J. Murphy, Tony Thomas Jr., Kathy Kane, William Barrett, Rick Cronauer, Michael Merritt, and Butch Frati); the "College Defendants" ...

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