Townes v. City of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1999-05-06

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JACOBS, Circuit Judge: Victor Townes, currently incarcerated for matters not the subject of this case, initiated this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit pro se in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Wood, /.), claiming that his constitutional rights were violated by several officers of the New York Police Department — and derivatively by the City of New…

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