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LOPEZ v. RUHL

No. K 83-156.

584 F.Supp. 639 (1984)

Pedro Savala LOPEZ and Mary Lou Lopez, Plaintiffs, v. Detective Sargent Gary RUHL, Forrest (Nick) Jewell, and the Berrien County Sheriff's Department, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

April 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sally Zack Wheeler, Wheeler & Wheeler, P.C., Alistair J.H. Smith, Barnard & Smith, P.C., Kalamazoo, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Thomas E. Nelson, Asst. Pros. Atty., St. Joseph, Mich., for defendants.

OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action arising out of the arrest and detention of Plaintiff Pedro Lopez in 1982. Jurisdiction is premised on 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343. Plaintiffs cite the Fourteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985 and 1988 as the substantive basis of their due process claims. (Complaint, ¶ 4). In this opinion the Court takes up Defendants' motion for summary judgment, filed March 8, 1984...

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