FOWLER v. VINCENT

No. 72 Civ. 4759.

366 F.Supp. 1224 (1973)

James FOWLER, Plaintiff, v. Leon J. VINCENT, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

November 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jethro M. Eisenstein, Richard Blaker, Law Student, New York City, for plaintiff.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of New York (David H. Berman, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for defendants.


BAUMAN, District Judge.

This is an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its jurisdictional complement, 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). At the time of the filing of the complaint plaintiff, James Fowler, was incarcerated in the Green Haven Correctional Facility, serving a sentence of seven years imposed on December 4, 1968 in the Supreme Court, New York County. He seeks damages of $300,000 from each of the three defendants as well as an injunction against...

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