BROCK v. WRIGHT

Docket No. 02-0042.

315 F.3d 158 (2003)

Vincent A. BROCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lester WRIGHT, T.G. Eagan and James G. Berbary, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 3, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent A. Brock, #97-B-2794, Collins Correctional Facility, Collins, NY, pro se.

Julie S. Mereson, Assistant Solicitor General, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, (Peter H. Schiff, Senior Counsel, of counsel) Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: CALABRESI, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and STEIN, District Judge.


CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant, Vincent Brock, is an inmate in the custody of the New York Department of Corrections ("DOCS"). In December 1998, Brock suffered a deep laceration to his right cheek when another inmate slashed his face with a knife. Brock received prompt and, by all accounts, adequate medical care for the wound itself. But he alleges that the wound has led to a painful and disfiguring keloid and that various DOCS employees have wrongfully...

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