HAEFNER v. COUNTY OF LANCASTER, PA.

Civ. A. No. 82-1018.

543 F.Supp. 264 (1982)

Richard C. HAEFNER v. The COUNTY OF LANCASTER, PA.; the Lancaster County Prison; the City of Lancaster, Pa.; Police Department: Jerry P. Crump, individually and as a Police Officer of the City of Lancaster Police Department; Howard H. Snyder, individually and as a Police Officer of the City of Lancaster Police Department; James Burkey; Kevin Burkey; Thomas Dommel, individually and as Captain of the Guard at Lancaster County Prison; Randy Klivansky and Kathleen V. Mumma, individually and as an employee of the County of Lancaster, Court of Common Pleas.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Sprague, Michael Minkin, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Richard R. Galli, Philadelphia, Pa., for Dommel and Mumma.

Christopher W. Mattson, Lancaster, Pa., for City of Lancaster.

J. Richard Gray, Lancaster, Pa., for Klivansky.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Res judicata rests upon considerations of "economy of judicial time and public policy favoring the establishment of legal relations". Sea-Land Services v. Gaudet, 414 U.S. 573, 578, 94 S.Ct. 806, 811, 39 L.Ed.2d 9 (1974), quoting Commissioner v. Sunnen, 333 U.S. 591, 597, 68 S.Ct. 715, 719, 92 L.Ed. 898 (1948). Described as a "fundamental...

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