RAYSOR v. PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY

No. 1148, Docket 84-7658.

768 F.2d 34 (1985)

Benjamin F. RAYSOR, Jr., Appellant, v. PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY, Judith Fox, personally and as owner of Cornucopia Health Foods Store, Sergeant M. Vergura and Officer N.W. Simpson of the Port Authority Police Force, Nature Bar Health Foods, Inc., Larry Fox and Larry Manheimer, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin F. Raysor, Jr., pro se.

Ellen M. Coin, New York City (Shapiro, Mortman, Schwartz & Greene, Harvey M. Greene, New York City, of counsel), for appellees Judith Fox, Nature Bar Health Foods, Inc. and Larry Fox.

Arthur P. Berg, New York City (Patrick J. Falvey, Gen. Counsel, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York City, of counsel, Kathleen M. Collins, Manuel Kasson, New York City, on brief), for appellees Port Authority, Sergeant Vergura and Officer Simpson.

Before LUMBARD, OAKES and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

Five years ago, Benjamin F. Raysor, Jr., was arrested for possession of stolen property while seeking to return two bottles of vitamin pills without the sales slip to the Cornucopia Health Foods Store ("Cornucopia"), located in the World Trade Center. After the case against Raysor was dismissed on the prosecutor's motion for want of proof, Raysor brought suit for violation of his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) and for false arrest...

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