Thurman v. City of Torrington

Tracy Thurman v. City of Torrington
CourtUnited States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Full case name Tracy Thurman v. City of Torrington, et al
DecidedJune 25 1985
Citation595 F.Supp. 1521 (C.D.1 1984)
Holding
Local police of the City of Torrington ignored domestic violence reports pertaining to the husband of Tracey Thurman and further failed to enforce a court ordered restraining order. The court further finds that the City of Torrington did not maintain a standard policy of legal discrimination against all women.
Court membership
Judge sittingSenior District Judge Blumenfeld
Laws applied
Connecticut Family Violence Prevention and Response Act of 1986

Thurman v. City of Torrington, DC, 595 F.Supp. 1521 (1985) was a court decision concerning Tracey Thurman, a Connecticut homemaker who sued the city police department in Torrington, Connecticut, and claimed a failure of equal protection under the law against her abusive husband Charles "Buck" Thurman, Sr.