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WASHINGTON v. SIMPSON

No. 85-2471.

806 F.2d 192 (1986)

Wardell WASHINGTON, Appellant, v. Walter SIMPSON, Chief of Police; and Phillip White; John Ball, and John Fink, Officers, Little Rock Police Department, Little Rock, Arkansas; The City of Little Rock; The Little Rock Police Department, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace A. Walker, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Victra L. Fewell, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before ROSS, Circuit Judge, FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

Wardell Washington appeals from the district court's1 ruling entered in favor of defendants, Little Rock Police Officers John Fink, John Ball and Phillip White.2 Washington brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 (1982), and also under a corresponding pendent state tort law alleging his fourth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated as a result of an unlawful...

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