AFRICAN TRADE & INFO. v. ABROMAITIS

Docket No. 01-7303.

294 F.3d 355 (2002)

AFRICAN TRADE & INFORMATION CENTER, INC., Mohamoud D. Ahmed, and Alan W. Gates, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James F. ABROMAITIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark F. Kohler (Karla A. Turekian, on the brief), Assistant Attorneys General; Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Hartford, CT, on behalf of Defendant-Appellant James F. Abromaitis.

John R. Williams, Williams & Pattis, New Haven, CT, on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellees African Trade & Information Center, Inc., Mohamoud D. Ahmed, and Alan W. Gates.

Before: KATZMANN and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and GLEESON, District Judge.


Judge KATZMANN concurs by separate opinion.

GLEESON, United States District Judge.

This appeal concerns the availability of a qualified immunity defense for defendant James F. Abromaitis, the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development ("DECD"), who allegedly violated the constitutional rights of plaintiffs African Trade & Information Center, Inc., Mohamoud D. Ahmed, and Alan W. Gates by retaliating against them for...

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