CEPEDA v. COUGHLIN


128 A.D.2d 995 (1987)

Ramon Cepeda et al., Appellants, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, Individually and as Commissioner of The State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 19, 1987


Weiss, J.

Plaintiffs are inmates at Great Meadow Correctional Facility and, except for defendant Commissioner of Correctional Services, the remaining defendants are correction officers and their superiors at the facility. In this action pursuant to 42 USC § 1983, plaintiffs allege that the correction officers used excessive force and assaulted them on June 25, 1984 during an inmate disturbance which originated during plaintiffs' transfer from outdoor...

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