GENTILE v. COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

No. 203, Dockets 90-7307, 90-7327.

926 F.2d 142 (1991)

Steven GENTILE and William Rydstrom, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. The COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, a Municipal Entity, Detective Robert Sisino, Detective Clifford Christ, Police Officer Michael Rogers, Police Officer Allen Prim, Police Officers Johns Does, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Thomas Boyle, Suffolk County Atty., Hauppauge, N.Y. (Caroline Levy, Asst. County Atty., of counsel), for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.

James I. Meyerson, New York City (Jonathan C. Moore, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.

Julius L. Chambers, Cornelia T.L. Pillard, Charles Stephen Ralston, Clyde E. Murphy, Attys., NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, as amicus curiae.

Before FEINBERG, VAN GRAAFEILAND and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Defendant County of Suffolk and individual defendants Robert Sisino, Clifford Christ, Michael Rogers and Allen Prim appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, dated February 21, 1990, after a jury trial before Judge Jack B. Weinstein, granting plaintiffs Steven Gentile and William Rydstrom the sum of $150,000 each from defendant County of Suffolk (hereafter the County) for defendants' violation...

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