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SCHIEBER v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

No. 01-2312.

320 F.3d 409 (2003)

Sylvester J. SCHIEBER; Vicki A. Schieber, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Shannon Schieber; Sylvester Schieber; Vicki Schieber v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA; Steven Woods, Individually and as a Police Officer; Raymond Scherff, Individually and as a Police Officer Steven Woods, Individually and as a Police Officer; Raymond Scherff, Individually and as a Police Officer, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed February 20, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc L. Fleischaker, Anne L. Milem, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, and David Rudovsky (Argued), Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein, Messing & Rau, Philadelphia, for Appellees.

Jane L. Istvan (Argued), Elise Bruhl, City of Philadelphia Law Department, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants.

Terry L. Fromson, Women's Law Project, Philadelphia, PA, for Amici-Appellees.

BEFORE: NYGAARD and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges, and SLEET, District Judge.

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

STAPLETON, Circuit Judge.

In the early morning hours of May 7, 1998, Shannon Schieber was raped and murdered in her second floor apartment at 251 S. 23rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Schieber's parents, Sylvester and Vicki, brought this civil rights suit on their own behalf and as representatives of her estate against the City of Philadelphia and Steven Woods and Raymond Scherff, the police officers...

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