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RIVERA v. U.S.

No. 714, Docket 90-6171.

928 F.2d 592 (1991)

Maria RIVERA, Angel Santana, Diana Penaloza Arce, Enrique Arce, Santiago Mendez and Carmen Mendez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration; various named officers, including Special Agents Colon, Rivera, Timothy Sullivan, Wnukowski and Gabriella Zacco, Detectives Beck, Becheck, Casuso, Cebarello, Jones, Larkin and Velez, Investigators James J. Boylan, Robinson, Robert Robles, Rohman and Welch, Sergeants Cook and Murray, and John Doe and Jane Doe, et al., unknown officers and agents, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D.B. Lewis, New York City for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edward T. Ferguson, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Otto G. Obermaier, U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., Marla Alhadeff, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Leon Friedman, Lewis M. Steel, New York City (Steel & Bellman, Arthur N. Eisenberg, New York Civil Liberties Union, Kenneth Kimerling, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc., New York City, of counsel), filed a brief for amici curiae New York Civil Liberties Union and Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc.

Before TIMBERS, KEARSE and MINER, Circuit Judges.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Maria Rivera et al. appeal from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Michael B. Mukasey, Judge, dismissing their complaint which sought damages from the United States, certain of its law enforcement agents, and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"), principally for violation of plaintiffs' rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures...

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