RICCA v. UNITED STATES

No. 75 C 314.

488 F.Supp. 1317 (1980)

Carmine P. RICCA and Christine M. Ricca, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, Carlo Boccia, Andrew Andalaro, Thomas O'Brien, Louis Dell'Ermo and James Bradley, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

April 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lipsig, Sullivan, Mollen & Liapakis, New York City, by Jay W. Dankner, Bennett J. Wasserman, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y., by Abraham Y. Skoff, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., for defendants United States of America and Federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

Schulte & McGoldrick, New York City, by John S. Martin, Lisa Kolb Liebert, New York City, for defendants Boccia and Bradley.

John J. Degnan, Atty. Gen., State of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J., by ALfred Abbotts, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N. J., for defendants Andalaro and O'Brien.

Salvatore Perillo, Corp. Counsel, City of Newark, Newark, N. J., by John C. Pidgeon, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Newark, N. J., for defendant Dell'Ermo.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

This action for damages against the United States and its agents arises out of an incident that occurred on February 28, 1974, when federal agents and State police members of a Federal Narcotics Task Force stopped Carmine Ricca in his automobile on a public street in Kearny, New Jersey. Plaintiffs allege that for some time prior to stopping him, the defendants had maintained surveillance on Ricca and had followed...

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