YAMMINE v. DEVITA


43 A.D.3d 520 (2007)

840 N.Y.S.2d 652

MICHAEL YAMMINE et al., Respondents, v. JAMES DEVITA, as Chief of Police of the Village of Owego, et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided August 2, 2007.


Peters, J.

Plaintiffs are naturalized citizens of Lebanese descent who own and operate a restaurant in the Village of Owego, Tioga County. In April 2002, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and other sites, plaintiffs learned that the Chief of Police, defendant James DeVita, was parading around the Village, cloaked in his police uniform, making assertions that plaintiffs were terrorists, drug dealers and gun runners associated...

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