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MESHKOV v. ABINGTON TP.

Civ. A. No. 79-1388.

517 F.Supp. 1280 (1981)

Stanley MESHKOV, Administrator of the Estate of Glenn Meshkov, Deceased, v. ABINGTON TOWNSHIP and Detective Alex Panechello, Officer Philip J. Ridge, Officer Lawrence DiJoseph, Corporal Bruce Dean, Herbert J. Mooney and Ohio Medical Products.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

July 15, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis E. Marshall, Robert G. Hanna, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, Pa., defendants Abington Tp., Panechello, Ridge, DiJoseph and Dean.

William C. Foster, Kelly, Harrington, McLaughlin & Foster, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Ohio Medical Products.

MEMORANDUM

RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.

Before the Court in this civil rights action is the motion to dismiss of various defendants. The plaintiff, Stanley Meshkov, is the father and the administrator of the estate of Glenn Meshkov, who hanged himself in a detention cell at the Abington Police Department on February 27, 1978. The plaintiff initially filed this action against Abington Township (Township) and five of the police officers on the Township...

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