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TURPIN v. MAILET

No. 317, Docket 77-7345.

579 F.2d 152 (1978)

Thomas TURPIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph MAILET and John Doe, Individually and as police officers of the Police Department of the City of West Haven, and City of West Haven, Defendants, and City of West Haven, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Avery, Boston, Mass. (John R. Williams and Williams, Wynn & Wise, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul A. Scholder, New Haven, Conn., for defendant-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and FEINBERG, MANSFIELD, MULLIGAN, OAKES, TIMBERS, GURFEIN, VAN GRAAFEILAND and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

With the ratification of the fourteenth amendment in 1868, Congress and the judiciary embarked on a century-long journey to transform the mere words of the amendment into an instrument capable of protecting those injured by illegal state action. The legislative branch moved first and with dispatch in enacting the Civil Rights Bill of 1871, whose overarching provisions charted broad expanses of the new constitutional territory. Courts...

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