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CIRAOLO v. CITY OF NEW YORK

Docket No. 99-7550.

216 F.3d 236 (2000)

Debra CIRAOLO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Police Department of the City of New York, Christin Morgillo, Detective, Shield No. 2233, Jane Does 1-2, Shield Nos. Unknown, and Julie Fontanella, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 15, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Weiner, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Julian L. Kalkstein, Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, N.Y. (Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel, and Larry A. Sonnenshein, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: LEVAL, CALABRESI, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Judges CALABRESI and KATZMANN file separate concurring opinions.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

After a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Robert P. Patterson, Jr., J.), plaintiff-appellee Debra Ciraolo was awarded $19,645 in compensatory damages and $5,000,000 in punitive damages against defendant-appellant the City of New York (the "City"), in her suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for, inter alia,

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