SIRA v. MORTON

Docket No. 03-0156.

380 F.3d 57 (2004)

Rubin SIRA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. R. MORTON, C. Artuz, D. Selsky, and G. Goord, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 2, 2004.

Amended: August 17, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Knudsen, Assistant Attorney General (Marion R. Buchbinder, of counsel) for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellants.

Joel Landau, Prisoners' Legal Services of New York (Tom Terrizzi, of counsel), Albany, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: SACK and RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.


RAGGI, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellee Rubin Sira, who is presently incarcerated by the State of New York as a result of his 1995 conviction on narcotics, robbery, and weapon charges, see People v. Sira, 254 A.D.2d 311, 680 N.Y.S.2d 101 (2d Dep't 1998), sues Glenn S. Goord, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Donald Selsky, the Director of the...

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