CONTRERAS v. UNITED STATES

No. 735, Docket 81-6186.

672 F.2d 307 (1982)

Zoila CONTRERAS and Yolanda Siliezar, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juan Cartagena, New York City (Douglas Kramer and Baden, Kramer & Huffman, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ben Wiles, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., Miles Tepper, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs-Appellants Zoila Contreras and Yolanda Siliezar appeal from a May 26, 1981 judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jacob Mishler, Judge), dismissing their claim for damages against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-2680. The complaint sought damages for an allegedly unlawful warrantless arrest of plaintiffs and a warrantless search of their apartment by officers of the...

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