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VANCE v. BILLINGSLY

Civ. No. 3-79-434.

487 F.Supp. 439 (1980)

Jimmy VANCE, Clyde Taylor, Ernest Lambert and Donald Morris, Jr. v. Ernest BILLINGSLY, Douglas Griffith, and Scott County, Tennessee.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, N. D.

March 20, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert S. Moncier, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Frank Vettori, Farrell A. Levy, W. P. Boone Dougherty, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

This is an action for damages premised solely on 42 U.S.C. § 1983.1 Plaintiffs, four employees of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), were allegedly arrested and detained for trespassing by defendant Billingsly, a private citizen, and defendants Scott County and Deputy Griffith, concededly public officials (hereinafter "public defendants"), in violation of their constitutional...

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