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JONES v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Civ. A. No. 76-1476.

491 F.Supp. 284 (1980)

Willie JONES, Calvin Byrd and Arthur Lee Jones v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Officers H. Muntz, J. Delgado, John Doe, and Joseph O'Neill.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

May 12, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee M. Herman, Bayer, Herman & Leizerowski, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Paul R. Sacks, Asst. City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

On October 30, 1979, I dismissed plaintiffs' second amended complaint, allowing leave to amend. That complaint, alleging police misconduct, and naming as defendants not only three police officers and former Police Commissioner O'Neill, but also the City of Philadelphia, looked directly to the Fourteenth Amendment as the source of the asserted federal cause of action. I held that the decision in Monell v. Department...

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