PIZZUTO v. COUNTY OF NASSAU

No. CV 00-0148(NGG).

240 F.Supp.2d 203 (2002)

Virginia PIZZUTO, Administratrix of the Estate of her husband Thomas Pizzuto, and on her own behalf; Tommy Pizzuto, by his mother and natural guardian Virginia Pizzuto; Carol Pizzuto; Rosario pizzuto; Joseph Pizzuto; Russell Pizzuto; and Anthony Pizzuto, Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF NASSAU; The Sheriffs Department of Nassau County; individually and in their official capacity, Sheriff Joseph Jablonsky; Under-Sheriff Jerome Donahue; Under-Sheriff Paul Schoenberger; The Nassau County Correctional Center; individually and in their official capacity as Nassau County Correction Officers Edward Velazquez, Patrick Regnier, Ivano Bavaro, Joseph Bergen, Gary Pincus, Richard Trino; Robert Peterson individually and in their official capacity, John Does correction officers and non-uniformed employees of Nassau County, The Sheriffs Department of Nassau County, and/or The Nassau County Correctional Center, Richard Roes, supervisory officers, the identity and number of whom is presently unknown, Defendants.

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

November 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Neufeld, Cochran Neufeld & Scheck, LLP, New York, NY, for plaintiff.

Paul F. Millus, Snitow & Cunningham, LLP, New York, NY, Ernest Peace, Alan J. Reardon, Carole A. Burns & Associates, Peter Monaghan, Bartlett, McDonough, Monaghan & Berk, Thomas A. Toscano, Thomas Toscano, P.C., Mineola, NY, for defendant


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GARAUFIS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Virginia Pizzuto, Carol Pizzuto, Joseph Pizzuto, Russell Pizzuto, Tommy Pizzuto, Anthony Pizzuto and the estate of Rosario Pizzuto ("Plaintiffs") have brought eighteen claims under federal and state law against the above captioned Defendants. The claims arise out of the murder of Thomas Pizzuto by corrections officers of the Nassau County Correctional Center ("NCCC"). Defendants have moved...

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