SHIREY v. BENSALEM TP.

Civ. A. No. 80-2428.

501 F.Supp. 1138 (1980)

Gerald A. SHIREY, Jr. et al. v. BENSALEM TOWNSHIP et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

November 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Green, Neil A. Morris, Sidkoff, Pincus, Greenberg & Green, P. C., Philadelphia, Pa., John M. McClure, Doylestown, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Frank, Margolis, Edelstein & Scherlis, Richard A. Kraemer, Philadelphia, Pa., for Warminister Tp.

Richard R. Fink, Levittown, Pa., for Tullytown Borough and Police Chief Gaspar Favoroso.

William B. Moyer, Power, Bowen & Valimont, Doylestown, Pa., for Police Chief Raymond Voelker and Police Chief of Bristol Tp.

Richard B. Hardt, Detweiler, Hughes & Kokonos, Philadelphia, Pa., for Falls Tp. Bd. of Sup'rs and Falls Police Chief James Kettler, Individually.

Leonard B. Sokolove, Sokolove, Pechter, Stief & Waite, Bristol, Pa., Daniel J. Allan, Philadelphia, Pa., for Bristol Tp.

Richard M. Snyder, Bristol, Pa., for Bristol Borough and Police Chief Faragay Vincent.

Sondra K. Slade, West Chester, Pa., for Buckingham Tp. and Steven Daniels.

Henry F. Huhn, Bensalem, Pa., and Robert G. Hanna, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, Pa., for Bensalem Tp. and Police Chief Lawrence Michaels.

Peter J. Hoffman, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, Pa., for Buckingham Tp.

Alan J. Davis, City Sol., Ralph J. Teti, Deputy City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., for City of Philadelphia.

White & Williams, Peter T. Parashes, Richard M. Shusterman, T. A. Shovlin, Philadelphia, Pa., for Borough of Bristol.

Moskowitz, Zamparelli & Weiss, P. C., Stephen I. Weiss, Mindy M. Brook, Langhorne, Pa., for Falls Tp. and Police Chief James Kettler.

Guy T. Matthews, White, Matthews & Delaney, Langhorne, Pa., for Middletown Tp. and Police Chief Howard C. Shook.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEWCOMER, District Judge.

The issue before the Court is the sufficiency of the Complaint filed by Gerald A. Shirey, Stephen McCullough, William R. Hamilton, and Donna L. Hamilton, against 9 municipalities, 6 police chiefs, and certain unknown John Doe defendants.

The complaint sets forth the following factual scenario: (1) on the evenings of June 23, 1979, and June 24, 1979, police officers and other agents of various municipalities...

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