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WHITE v. CITY OF RICHMOND

Nos. C-79-1184 WHO, C-80-0433 WHO and C-80-4022 WHO.

559 F.Supp. 127 (1982)

Bobby Darnell WHITE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF RICHMOND, et al., Defendants. Henry L. ROYAL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF RICHMOND, et al., Defendants. Anthony EVANS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF RICHMOND, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

September 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Cole, John Houston Scott, Cole & Scott, Oliver A. Jones, Regional Counsel NAACP, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Peter P. Edrington, Gibbons, Stoddard & Lepper, Walnut Creek, Cal., for defendants.

OPINION

ORRICK, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, twenty-seven black residents of the City of Richmond, California, filed these civil rights actions1 in May, 1979, alleging that Richmond police officers were routinely beating and harassing black Richmond residents and then filing groundless charges, usually resisting arrest or interfering with an officer, against the victims of the beatings; they sought damages and broad injunctive...

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