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AFRICA v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Master File No. 85-2745. No. 87-2678.

809 F.Supp. 375 (1992)

Ramona AFRICA v. The CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, W. Wilson Goode, Leo Brooks, Gregore Sambor, William Richmond, Lt. Frank Powell, Officer William Klein, Officer Michael Tursi, Sgt. Albert Revel, Sgt. Edward Connor, Edward G. Rendell, Corporal Morris Demsko, State Trooper Richard Reed.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

December 8, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andre Dennis, Stradley, Ronon, Stevens, & Young, Philadelphia, PA, for Ramona Africa.

John D.J. Shellenberger, Philadelphia, PA, John G. Knorr, Chief Deputy Attys. Gen., Com. of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, for Richard Reed and Morris Demsko.

Nolan N. Atkinson, Jr., Frank E. Noyes, II, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, PA, for W. Wilson Goode.

John W. Morris, Philadelphia, PA, for Gregore Sambor.

Steven R. Waxman, Leslie M. Gerstein, Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, Philadelphia, PA, for Leo Brooks.

Richard D. Malmed, Philadelphia, PA, for Frank Powell.

Peter C. Kennedy, Hecker Brown, Sherry & Johnson, Philadelphia, PA, for William Richmond.

Carl Oxholm, Philadelphia, PA, for William Klein.

Arlene F. Bell, Chief Deputy City Sol., Philadelphia, PA, for City defendants.

OPINION

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

On March 26, 1992, Magistrate Judge Hall issued a Report and Recommendation recommending denial of motions for summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds filed by defendants W. Wilson Goode, Leo Brooks, Gregore Sambor, William Richmond, Frank Powell, William Klein, Morris Demsko, and Richard Reed.1 The Report and Recommendation concluded that a determination of the "objective reasonableness...

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