Date: 11-05-2009

Case Style: Frank Sloup v. Alan Loeffler, et al.

Case Number: 2:05-cv-01766-JFB-AKT

Judge: Joseph F. Bianco

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (King County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: Craig Purcell, Lawrence F. Kelly and Tim Glynn, Glynn, Mercep & Purcell L.L.P., Stony Brook, New York

Defendant's Attorney: Richard Hoffman and Erin A. Sidaras, Islip Town Attorney's Office, Islip, New York and Jessica Klotz and Jeff Pincus, Lewis, Johs, Avallone, Aviles & Kaufman, L.L.P., Melville, New York

Description: Frank Sloup sued the Town of Islip, alan Loeffler and Craig Pomroy on civil rights violations theories undeer 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that defendants wrongfully drove him out of business. Plaintiff claimed that defendants wrongfully claimed that 41 of his crab traps and bouys were a hazard to navigation and had to be removed from Champlin Creek. He claimed that he was eventually driven out of business by the harassment of his fishing business. Sloup was one of the last remaining "baymen" who still made a full time living from fishing in the area. He claimed that the assertion that he was interfering with navigation was the way in which defendants elected to get around the limitation of the Town's power to regulate fishing around the Great South Bay of New York.

Defendants denied wrongdoing.

Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $2.1 million.

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