BIRNBAUM v. TRUSSELL

No. 87, Docket 30300.

371 F.2d 672 (1966)

Morton BIRNBAUM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ray E. TRUSSELL, Commissioner of the Department of Hospitals of the City of New York, Robert J. Mangum, First Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Hospitals of the City of New York, and William Lewis, President, Local 237, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Clifford, and George D. Garofallou, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel of City of New York, Seymour B. Quel, and William A. Marks, New York, New York, for defendants-appellees Trussell and Mangum.

Louis E. Yavner, and Robert Nelson Shiverts, New York City, for defendant-appellee William Lewis, etc.

Before WATERMAN, HAYS and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The appellant, Morton Birnbaum, a physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of New York, brought this action pro se on May 1, 1964 against the three defendants-appellees in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He based jurisdiction on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 "and other sections of the Civil Rights Laws" and sought damages of $25,000 and costs. The...

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