SHER v. COUGHLIN

No. 765, Docket 83-2317.

739 F.2d 77 (1984)

Walter SHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas COUGHLIN, III, Individually and as Commissioner of Correctional Services, Robert J. Henderson, Individually and as Superintendent of Auburn Correctional Facility; Robert Butera, Individually and as Senior Counselor at Auburn Correctional Facility; Arthur Leonardo, Individually and as Director of Transportation and Movement; Robert Nelepovitz, Individually and as Deputy Superintendent of Security at Auburn Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faith Seidenberg, Syracuse, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin A. Hotvet, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., William J. Kogan, Asst. Sol. Gen., Albany, N.Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before TIMBERS, NEWMAN and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

Walter Sher appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of New York (Howard G. Munson, Chief Judge) dismissing, after a bench trial, his complaint challenging his transfer from the general population of the Auburn Correctional Facility to the Reclassification Unit of the Attica Correctional Facility. Sher brought suit for damages and other relief under 42 U.S.C. §...

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