Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit July 15, 2002, Docket No. 01-7914 (Pearl v. City of Long Beach)

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal illustrates, in a dramatic context, the tension between the judicial system’s instinct to provide a remedy for every wrong and the system’s recognition that the passage of time must leave some wrongs without a remedy. David Pearl appeals from the July 18, 2001, judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Leonard D.