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CONNELL v. SIGNORACCI

Nos. 96-7955(L), 96-9125 and 96-9455.

153 F.3d 74 (1998)

Robert S. CONNELL; Valerie Ann LaPointe, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Robert SIGNORACCI, Mayor and Commissioner of Public Safety of the City of Cohoes; Frank Valenti, Chief Investigator for the District Attorney, Albany County; Raymond William Heslin, Chief of Police, Police Department, City of Cohoes; Stephen Carmel, Building Code Enforcement Officer, City of Cohoes; James Ward, Detective Lieutenant, Police Department, City of Cohoes; Patrick Abrams, Captain, Police Department, City of Cohoes, each individually and in their official capacity, Defendants-Appellants, John Stackrow, Commissioner, Department of Public Works, City of Cohoes; City of Cohoes, New York; City of Cohoes Police Department; Keith J. Champagne, Director of Code Enforcement, City of Troy, each individually and in their official capacity, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., Albany, NY (Mark A. Edwards, Oliver & Oliver, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Daniel J. Stewart, Albany, NY (Dreyer Boyajian LLP, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants Signoracci, Heslin, Carmel, Ward, and Abrams.

Arete Sprio, Albany, NY (Maynard, O'Connor, Smith Catalinotto & D'Agostino, LLP, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Valenti.

Before: MESKILL and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN, District Judge.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellees Robert Connell and Valerie LaPointe were (respectively) the landlord and the owner-operator of two topless dancing bars located in the neighboring towns of Cohoes and Troy, New York. They allege that the defendants-appellants — the mayor of Cohoes, municipal officials of Cohoes and Troy, and an investigator for the Albany County District Attorney's office — violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by infringing (and...

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