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LEITE v. CITY OF PROVIDENCE

Civ. A. No. 78-320.

463 F.Supp. 585 (1978)

Homero F. LEITE v. CITY OF PROVIDENCE, by and through its Treasurer Donald E. McKiernan and John Does numbered one through five, Individually and in their capacities as officers of the Providence Police Department, whose names are presently unknown to the Plaintiff.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

December 21, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald McG. DeCelles, Providence, R. I., for plaintiff.

Joseph F. Penza, Jr., Providence, R. I., for defendants.

OPINION

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff Homero Leite alleges that five Providence policemen verbally and physically abused and mistreated him. Leite brings the present action pursuant to numerous federal civil rights statutes, relying primarily upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and asserting a cause of action under various constitutional amendments as they are incorporated into the fourteenth amendment with jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331.

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