DORSEY v. CITY OF DETROIT

No. 86-1416.

858 F.2d 338 (1988)

Robert H. DORSEY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF DETROIT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Jarrett, argued, Detroit, Mich., Peter J. Parks, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Marion Jenkins, argued, Law Department-City of Detroit, Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before WELLFORD, MILBURN, and NELSON, Circuit Judges.


DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an action against the City of Detroit and certain of its police officers for allegedly violating the civil rights of a fleeing misdemeanant and his mother. When the mother tried, as she claimed, to prevent the arresting officers from injuring her son in the course of his arrest, she was arrested too. Mother and son contend on appeal that the trial court erred in allowing their case to be removed from a state court and erred...

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