BRIDGEPORT GUARDIANS, INC. v. DELMONTE

Docket No. 06-4764-cv.

537 F.3d 214 (2008)

BRIDGEPORT GUARDIANS, INC., Theophilus B. Meekins, Charles D. Smith, Arthur Carter, Richard Herlihy, Thomas D. Flynn, David Daniels, Raymond Sherwood, Carlos Medina, Joe Ann Simmons, James Sheffield, Brenda Dixon, TNT Specialized Division, Plaintiffs-Appellees, William Bailey, Hispanic Society Bridgeport Police Department, Inc., Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellees, William H. Clendenen, Jr., Special Master, v. Arthur J. DELMONTE, John Devine, John C. O'Leary, Frank Delaquila, Larry Harris, Jr., Robert Bruno, James McCarthy, Glenn Prentice, Captain William Giblin, Richard Cummings, Sgt. David J. Hoyt, All Defendants, AFSCME Council 15, Local 1159, AFL-CIO, George Zwally, Bridgeport Police Union AFSCME Council 15, AFL-CIO., Defendants, City of Bridgeport and Bridgeport Police Union, Defendants-Appellants, John Donovan, Thomas Scanlon, Robert Mangano, James Honis, James Halpin, William Chapman, Aida Remele, Albert Fedorek, Gregory Iamartino, Judd Lezotte, Thomas Sweeney, Movants, Michael Novia, USA, Board of Police Commissioners, Alfonso Losada, Rachelle Berarducci, Ramon Larrucuente, Eugene O'Neill, Kevin Boyle, Interested-Party.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 11, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aimee J. Wood, Bridgeport, CT (William J. Wenzel, Pullman & Comley, LLC, Bridgeport, CT, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellants.

Sean K. McElligott, Bridgeport, CT (Antonio Ponvert III, Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., Bridgeport, CT, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before CARDAMONE, PARKER, and HALL, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut handed down by Judge Janet Bond Arterton and entered on August 14, 2006. The order affirmed the district court's prior referral to a special master of the City of Bridgeport's objection to the same special master's investigating a claim of racial discrimination made by an employee of the Bridgeport Police Department.

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