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BLACKBURN v. GOODWIN

No. 696, Docket 78-7592.

608 F.2d 919 (1979)

Sara BLACKBURN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Guy L. GOODWIN, Defendant-Appellant, and John J. Kearney et al., Defendants. Lewis COLE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Guy L. GOODWIN, Defendant-Appellant, and John J. Kearney et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Friedman, Hempstead, N. Y. (Paul G. Chevigny, New York City, New York Civil Liberties Union, Steven R. Shapiro, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Peter M. Brown, New York City (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Earl H. Nemser and Robert L. Sills, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Before SMITH, MANSFIELD and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.

MULLIGAN, Circuit Judge:

In two actions brought in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York individual plaintiffs complained that the defendants, former and present F.B.I. employees, either participated in or authorized the wiretapping of their conversations, the breaking and entering of their homes, and the opening of their mail in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2511, 2520, the First, Fourth and Ninth Amendments, as well as the...

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