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LAVERNE v. CORNING

No. 419, Docket 74-1856.

522 F.2d 1144 (1975)

Erwine LAVERNE and Estelle Laverne, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Howard J. CORNING, Jr., Mayor, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 3, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Ratner, New York City (Cohn, Glickstein, Lurie, Ostrin & Lubell, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Henry Root Stern, Jr., New York City (Thomas R. Esposito, P. Jay Wilker, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before MOORE and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges, and HOLDEN, District Judge.

MOORE, Circuit Judge:

The principal issue presented by this appeal is whether the defendants — the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Building Inspector and other officials of the Village of Laurel Hollow, Nassau County, Long Island — are entitled to assert good faith as a defense in this civil rights suit brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-88 seeking damages for violations of the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights. A brief outline of the facts and the procedural...

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