ADELONA v. WEBSTER

No. 81 Civ. 0373 (SWK).

654 F.Supp. 968 (1987)

Ebun ADELONA, Nzinga Adelona, by her mother Ebun Adelona, Violet Hyman, Douglas Harris, Michelle Hodges, Douglas Toure Harris, by his father and mother Douglas Harris and Michelle Hodges, Wilbur Jackson, Carlton Thompkins, Christine Thompkins, William Shields, Lila R. Shields, Jean Werner, Fred Werner, Muriel Otley, Oswald Facey, and Caroline Facey, by her father Oswald Facey, Plaintiffs, v. William WEBSTER, Ronald Butkiewicz, and Approximately Fifty Unknown Agents and Officers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, also known as Mary Ellen Beekman, Daniel J. Bertrand, Daniel B. Caylor, Robert J. Cordier, John W. Grouthamel, John W. Dalseg, Philip Grivas, Michael J. Henehan, James R. Lyons, Barry W. Mawn, Kenneth J. Maxwell, Robert D. Shea, Thomas J. Terjeson, Joseph Valiquette, Jr., Larry Wack, Donald J. Zembiec, David E. Carman, George Hanna, John F. Keenan, Alan V. MacDonald, Edmond J. Boran, Robert L. Paquette, John C. Cable, Thomas F. Lagatol, Phillip Hayden, Ralph J. Iannuzi, Robert J. Gleason, Daniel P. Blake, Ford W. Cole, Lynn J. Ferrin, Stephen A. Gilkerson, Thomas B. Locke, Jack L. Osborne, Don G. Provonsha, Danny A. Scott, Edwin J. Sharp, Joseph P. MacFarlane, Harold Suber, and the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New York Civil Liberties Union, C. Vernon Mason, New York City by Richard Emery, Jon Pines, for plaintiffs.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., for S.D. N.Y. by Carolyn Simpson, Asst. U.S. Atty., for U.S. of America and the individual Federal defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KRAM, District Judge.

This is a Bivens action. Plaintiffs seek damages, in the amount of $92 million, from the individual defendants as well as from the United States of America, together with declaratory and injunctive relief for the injuries they allegedly sustained as a result of the FBI Agents' entry into and search of a Harlem apartment building during the early morning hours of April 19, 1980. The case is presently...

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