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TROTMAN v. PALISADES INTERSTATE PARK COM'N

No. 470, Docket 76-7498.

557 F.2d 35 (1977)

Alvin TROTMAN and Franklin Mitchell, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The PALISADES INTERSTATE PARK COMMISSION, Morgan Clark, John Doe Officers of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission 1-3, Defendants, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., Albany (Ruth Kessler Toch, Sol. Gen., Peter J. Dooley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, of counsel), for defendant-appellant, Palisades Interstate Park Commission.

Carroll, McClary & Reid, New York City (James S. Carroll, III, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees, Alvin Trotman and Franklin Mitchell.

Before GURFEIN and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and BARTELS, District Judge.

BARTELS, District Judge:

Plaintiffs bring this civil rights action against Palisades Interstate Park Commission ("Commission") and three officers of the Commission under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988, alleging jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343, seeking compensatory and punitive damages of $600,000 predicated upon false arrest, illegal search and seizure and certain pendent state claims of prima facie tort and defamation.

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