United States Second Circuit

A claim of discriminatory denial of police protection does not require a showing that other similarly situated individuals received better treatment, or that there was an express racial classification, since showing a discriminatory motivation for the denial is sufficient.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/08/2001
• Decided 07/20/2001
• Published 07/20/2001

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge:, Before LEVAL, Circuit Judge, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey S. Shelly (George F. Carpinello, on the brief), Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Albany, N.Y., for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Assistant Solicitor General Andrew D. Bing (Solicitor General Preeta D. Bansal, Deputy Solicitor General Daniel Smirlock, Senior Counsel Peter H. Schiff, on the brief), for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y., for defendants-appellees.