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JABBAR v. FISCHER

Docket No. 11-3765.

683 F.3d 54 (2012)

Muhammad A. JABBAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Brian FISCHER, Commissioner of New York State Prisons, Raymond J. Cunningham, Superintendent of Woodbourne Correctional Facility, Scott J. Carlsen, Superintendent of Ulster Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 21, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Muhammad A. Jabbar , Woodbourne, NY, pro se.

Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Michael S. Belohlavek , Senior Counsel, Marion R. Buchbinder , Assistant Solicitor General, for Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: WINTER, CHIN, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff-appellant Muhammad Abdul Jabbar, a state inmate proceeding pro se, alleges that defendants-appellees violated his constitutional rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by transporting him on a bus without a seatbelt. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jones, J.) dismissed the action. Jabbar appeals. We hold that the failure of prison officials to provide seatbelts to prison inmates...

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