BROWNELL v. KROM

Docket No. 04-6364-PR.

446 F.3d 305 (2006)

Hardy BROWNELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert KROM, Scott Mentnech, Ross Loucks, Richard Bivens, Roger Specht, and C. Ferrafola, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 3, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bogin (Karen Murtagh-Monks, Michael E. Cassidy, on the brief), Steven R. Banks & John Boston, The Legal Aid Society, New York, New York, of counsel, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David Lawrence III, Assistant Solicitor General, Michael S. Belohlavek, Senior Counsel (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York) New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, JACOBS and HALL, Circuit Judges.


HALL, Circuit Judge.

Hardy Brownell, Jr., an inmate at Shawangunk Correctional Facility ("Shawangunk") in Wallkill, New York, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that defendant corrections officers denied his right of access to the courts by intentionally losing his legal documents and other personal items while transferring him between correctional facilities. Brownell contends...

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