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WILLIAMS v. GREIFINGER

No. 1966, Docket 96-2163.

97 F.3d 699 (1996)

Bobby WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert B. GREIFINGER, Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell A. Karlan, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, New York City, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Barbara K. Hathaway, Attorney General's Office, State of New York, New York City, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: CALABRESI and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, Senior District Judge.

LOUIS H. POLLAK, Senior District Judge:

Plaintiff Bobby Williams, an inmate at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, seeks to challenge a policy under which he was held in a status called "medical keeplock" for 589 days, without any opportunity for out-of-cell exercise, as a result of his refusal to take a tuberculosis test. Claiming that this policy's bar on out-of-cell exercise violated the Eighth Amendment, he has brought suit, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against Robert...

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