PATTERSON v. COUGHLIN

No. 990, Docket 89-2456.

905 F.2d 564 (1990)

Emmanuel D. PATTERSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III; Charles P. Hemandy; Harold J. Smith; N. DeSantos, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. King, Rochester, N.Y. (Falk, Manske, Couture & King, Rochester, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Martin A. Hotvet, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., Peter G. Crary, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Before KEARSE, CARDAMONE and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, our second encounter with this matter, defendants Thomas A. Coughlin, III, et al., prison officials of the State of New York (collectively the "State"), challenge a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Michael A. Telesca, Judge, awarding plaintiff Emmanuel D. Patterson, a State prisoner, $5,300 in damages for his improper...

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