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ROONEY v. WITTICH

No. 96 Civ. 8242 (AGS).

21 F.Supp.2d 273 (1998)

John P. ROONEY, Plaintiff, v. Roy WITTICH, District Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Economic and Community Development Administration, Newburgh, New York; Paul Higgins, Multi-Family Housing Coordinator, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Economic and Community Development Administration, Newburgh, New York; John Doe, Mary Roe and the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 13, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Goodman, Elias, Goodman, Shanks & Zizmor, LLP, New York City, for Plaintiff.

Kathleen M. Riedy, Asst. U.S. Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, New York City, for Defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

Plaintiff John Rooney was wrongly convicted of a serious crime. But unlike Dr. Richard Kimball in "The Fugitive," or Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables," he did not attempt to disguise his identity and hide, but opted instead for the less dramatic path of appealing his conviction to the Second Circuit. Having succeeded in having his conviction overturned, he has now instituted a civil suit against the United...

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