AUGENTI v. CAPPELLINI

Civ. A. No. 79-222.

499 F.Supp. 50 (1980)

Frank AUGENTI, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Gifford R. CAPPELLINI, Joseph Alexander, Sr., Joseph Alexander, Jr., Frank Augenti, Sr., Margaret Augenti, Marie Benson, Michael Benson, John Richard Benson, Tony Augenti, Blanche "Augenti", Robert Caparelli, Paul Litchkowski, Carl Kollar, Patricia Hartman, Daniel Schnae, John Does I through IV, being four unknown named defendants whose identities are unknown, Howie "Hoe", an individual whose last name is unknown, Defendants. Gifford R. CAPPELLINI, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. The HOLY SPIRIT ASSOCIATION FOR the UNIFICATION OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY a/k/a Unification Church, Neil Salonen, Bruce Brown, Bruce Miller, and John Does I through IV being agents, servants, members of the named defendant Unification Church whose names and identities are unknown at this time, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

February 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Miller, Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, Hazleton, Pa., Jeremiah S. Gutman, Eugene Harley, Levy, Gutman, Goldberg & Kaplan, New York City, for plaintiff.

Alan G. Apfel, Great Neck, N. Y., Cody H. Brooks, Lawrence M. Ludwig, Henkelman, Kreder, O'Connell & Brooks, Scranton, Pa., for Cappellini.

James M. Reinert, Shavertown, Pa., for Caparelli.

Patrick E. Dougherty, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for Augenti's, Benson's, Litchkowski and Kollar.

Paul McGlone, Scranton, Pa., for third-party plaintiff.

Francis P. Burns, Pittston, Pa., for third-party defendants.

James M. Howley, Scanlon, Howley & Scanlon, Scranton, Pa., for third-party defendant Miller.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CONABOY, District Judge.

A Complaint in this action was filed on February 22, 1979, in which Complaint the Plaintiff alleges that the various Defendants including the movant here, Gifford Cappellini, attempted to spirit the Plaintiff away from his chosen religion by a variety of acts, all of which the Plaintiff alleges violated his Constitutional rights under the Civil Rights Acts, 42 U.S...

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