ANGOLA v. CIVILETTI

No. 312, Docket 80-6120.

666 F.2d 1 (1981)

Bibi ANGOLA (former name Beatrice Watson), Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Benjamin R. CIVILETTI, Attorney General of the United States; William H. Webster, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Neil J. Welch, Assistant Director in charge of the New York Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Joseph MacFarlane, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the New York Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Ronald W. Butkiewicz; Edward Peterson and Robert Cordier, Special Agents, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Kunstler, New York City (Margaret L. Ratner, Randolph McLaughlin, and Michael D. Ratner, New York City, and C. Vernon Mason, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas D. Warren, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (John S. Martin, Jr., U.S. Atty., and Peter C. Salerno, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before TIMBERS and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and PORT, Senior District Judge.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Bibi Angola appeals from a judgment entered in the Southern District of New York, Whitman Knapp, District Judge, dismissing her complaint seeking injunctive and declaratory relief against alleged violations of her constitutional rights by government officials. The sole and narrow issue on appeal is the legal sufficiency of the complaint. We hold, for the reasons stated below, that the complaint, as amplified at a hearing before...

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