ANTONSEN v. WARD

No. 1773, Docket 91-7215.

943 F.2d 198 (1991)

Gregory ANTONSEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Benjamin WARD, as Commissioner of the Police Department of the City of New York; New York City Police Department; Edward I. Koch, as Mayor of the City of New York, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Martin Kennedy, New York City (Ira Cure, Lewis, Greenwald, Kennedy, Lewis, Clifton & Schwartz, P.C., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Thom, New York City (Victor A. Kovner, Stephen J. McGrath, and Frances Sands, Corp. Counsel, City of New York, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before MESKILL, NEWMAN and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Gregory Antonsen appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, John M. Cannella, Judge, that dismissed his complaint on res judicata grounds, and thus presents for us, once again, the problem of what claim-preclusive effect we should give a judgment rendered in an Article 78 proceeding by the New York State Supreme Court. It does so in the context...

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