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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION 

WINDHAM TODD PITTMAN, )

)

 Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

 v. ) 2:14cv959-MHT 

) (WO) 

STATE FARM FIRE AND 

CASUALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY; et al., 

)

) 

) 

)

 Defendants. )

OPINION 

 Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff filed this 

lawsuit claiming that defendants--his former girlfriend, a 

sheriff’s deputy, an insurance company, its employee, and 

its lawyers--conspired against him to violate his 

constitutional rights by subjecting him to a malicious 

prosecution and presenting a false affidavit in support of 

a search-warrant request. Plaintiff also brought a number 

of state-law claims based on the same allegations. One 

defendant, Teresa Spence, is pro se. This lawsuit is now 

before the court on the recommendation of the United 

States Magistrate Judge that the motions to dismiss filed 

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by the represented defendants be granted, that the federal 

claims against them be dismissed with prejudice, and that 

the state-law claims against them be dismissed without 

prejudice, and with leave to refile in state court. Also 

before the court are the parties’ objections to the 

recommendation. Pro se defendant Teresa Spence’s motion 

to dismiss is before the court as well. (While her motion 

to dismiss was made in answer to the original complaint, 

the allegations against her in both the original and 

amended complaints are essentially the same, and, in any 

event, the plaintiff has not made an issue of the court’s 

consideration of Spence’s motion to dismiss.) After an 

independent and de novo review of the record, the court 

concludes that the objections should be overruled, the 

magistrate judge’s recommendation adopted, and the motions 

to dismiss granted. 

 An appropriate judgment will be entered. 

 DONE, this the 14th day of December, 2015. 

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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