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AMNESTY AMERICA v. TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD

No. 03-7332.

361 F.3d 113 (2004)

AMNESTY AMERICA, suing in its representative capacity o/b/o arrestee victims of officially sanctioned, intentional and malicious physical brutality and excessive force to coerce the involuntary service of walking as arrestees and pre-trial detainees by police officers of the Town of West Hartford, CT, on April 1, 1989 and June 17, 1989, Plaintiff, William E. Waugh, Suzanne C. Verdi, R.N., Harry M. Ong, Eleanor Brady, arrestees and pre-trial detainees, suing o/b/o themselves and others similarly situated, and Edward Dombroski, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD, Defendant-Appellee, Robert McCue, Chief of Police, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 15, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Williams, Williams & Pattis, New Haven, CT, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Marcia J. Gleeson, Sack, Spector & Karsten, LLP, West Hartford, CT, for defendant-appellee.

Before: CARDAMONE, SOTOMAYOR, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants William E. Waugh, Suzanne C. Verdi, R.N., Harry M. Ong, Eleanor Brady, and Edward Dombroski (collectively, the "plaintiffs") appeal from the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Dorsey, S.J.), granting summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee, the Town of West Hartford ("defendant" or "the Town"). In 1992, plaintiffs filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983...

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