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MERIWETHER v. SHERWOOD

No. 78 Civ. 6128.

514 F.Supp. 433 (1981)

Charles MERIWETHER, Joseph Harris, and Victor Jackson, Plaintiffs, v. Wilbur K. SHERWOOD, Individually and as Sheriff of Orange County, New York, Charles Conklin, Individually, and formerly as Under Sheriff of Orange County, New York, Kenneth Davis, Individually and as Captain in the Orange County Sheriff's Department, William P. Powers, Individually, and as Under Sheriff of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, Robert Vosburgh, Individually and as Physician to the Orange County Jail, Eduard Liebel, as Nurse to the Orange County Jail, and the County of Orange, New York, Defendants.

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

May 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mid-Hudson Legal Services, Inc., Kingston, N. Y. by Sandra M. Nathan, Kingston, N. Y., of counsel, Stolar Alterman & Gulielmetti by Daniel L. Alterman, New York City, for plaintiffs.

County of Orange Dept. of Law by James G. Sweeney, County Atty., Robert T. Hartmann, Asst. County Atty., Goshen, N. Y., Costello & Shea by Frederick N. Gaffney, Steven E. Garry, New York City, for County defendants.

Greenblatt, Forrester & Axelrod by Richard Greenblatt, Newburgh, N. Y., for defendant Vosburgh (in his individual capacity).

OPINION AND ORDER

ABRAHAM D. SOFAER, District Judge:

Plaintiffs brought this suit to recover $340,000 in damages for injuries allegedly suffered while they were pretrial detainees at the Orange County Jail in Goshen, New York. Plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that their constitutional rights had been violated because defendants were deliberately indifferent to their serious medical needs. They also sued for negligence and malpractice...

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