William O. WHITE, New Haven Police Officer, Local 530 and Connecticut Council of Police Unions # 15 AFSCME AFL-CIO, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
Stephen W. Dunn, William L. White, Robert L. Lawlor, William E. McCoy, Carl Hunter, Carol Marci, Mary A. Fish, Douglas P. MacDonald, James K. O'Connell, Andrew Consiglio, John A. Prokop, Santiago Malave, Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Sheila WELLINGTON, Ronald Augustine, Joseph Herzyk, Thomas Reyes, Vincent Farricella, Clarence Butcher, Joseph Adelizzi, Robert Buckholz, Michael Laguna, Morris Trachten, Frank Logue, Peter Feriola and The City of New Haven, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 25, 1980.
Decided July 2, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
W. Paul Flynn, New Haven, Conn. (Gerald A. Heffernan, Kopkind, Flynn & Raccio, P. C., New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.
Frank Cochran, New Haven, Conn. (Eugene N. Sosnoff and Sosnoff, Cooper, Whitney & Cochran, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for intervening plaintiffs-appellees.
Charles G. Albom, New Haven, Conn. (Frederick W. Danforth, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Penn Rhodeen, Sp. Asst. Corp. Counsel, New Haven, Conn., and Paul L. Strauss, Law Student Intern, Yale Law School of counsel), for defendants-appellants.
Before KAUFMAN and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and BRIEANT, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
BRIEANT, District Judge:
Defendants-Appellants, state officials of Connecticut,1 appeal from an order remanding this action from the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Ellen Bree Burns, J.) to the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut at New Haven. Removal had been effected under the "refusal to act" clause of the Civil Rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1443(2), originally enacted in 1863 in aid of...
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