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WILLIAMS v. WALSH

No. 200, Docket 76-7263.

558 F.2d 667 (1977)

John E. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph A. WALSH, Individually and as Superintendent Bridgeport Police Department, William A. O'Connor, President, Frances E. Fagan, Vice President; Andrew C. Lindmark, Frank Delaquila, Wiley Wheeler, Elmer R. Rinko, Timothy O'Neill, and Anthony Camarda, all Individually and as the members of the Board of Police Commissioners, City of Bridgeport, Roger Lehman, Edwin Mak, Joseph Ciuci, John Bourque, and Jerome Mitchell, members of the Board of Police Commissioners, City of Bridgeport, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David N. Rosen, Rosen, Dolan & Koskoff, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff-appellant.

L. Scott Melville (Raymond B. Rubens, Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, WATERMAN and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment order of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Newman, J., dismissing, on the ground that the action was barred by the "borrowed" Connecticut tort statute of limitations, a civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We affirm the dismissal of the complaint.

In November, 1969, when plaintiff-appellant John Williams...

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