Edward C. Lucas v. City of Ludlow

The Honorable George Caram Steeh, United States District Judge for the Eastern District*
of Michigan, sitting by designation.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION
File Name: 08a0664n.06
Filed: November 3, 2008
No. 07-6317
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
EDWARD C. LUCAS,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
CITY OF LUDLOW, ET AL.,
Defendants-Appellees.
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ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED
STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY
Before: GIBBONS, COOK, Circuit Judges; and STEEH, District Judge.*
JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff-appellant Edward Lucas appeals the
decision of the district court to grant summary judgment for defendants-appellees City of Ludlow,
building inspector Joe Schutzman, and police officers Raymond Murphy, Benny Johnson, and James
Tucker. Lucas sued defendants-appellees under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of his
constitutional rights, under 42 U.S.C. § 1985 for an alleged conspiracy to deprive him of his civil
rights, and under Kentucky law for claims of defamation and malicious prosecution. After carefully
reviewing the record, the applicable law, the parties’ briefs, and having had the benefit of oral
argument, we find that the district court’s opinion carefully and correctly sets out the facts and the
governing law. Because this court’s issuance of a full opinion would serve no jurisprudential

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purpose and would be duplicative, we affirm on the basis of the district court’s well-reasoned order
of September 20, 2007, granting summary judgment to defendants-appellees.

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