AKILI v. WARD

No. 76-CV-300.

547 F.Supp. 729 (1982)

Malik Abdullah AKILI, George Cardwell, and Mark Frasier, Plaintiffs, v. Benjamin WARD, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Paul W. Metz and J. Leland Casscles, Supt. of Great Meadow Correctional Facility and former Supt. of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, respectively; Everett Jones, Deputy Superintendent for Security and William Fitzgerald, former Deputy Supt. for Security at Great Meadow Correctional Facility; one Currans and one Ripley, Lieutenants at Great Meadow Correctional Facility; one Welch, one Mulhall, one Fitzgerald, and one Henry, Sergeants at Great Meadow Correctional Facility; one Catalfamo, one Griffin, one Logan, and one Petticone, Correction Officers at Great Meadow Correctional Facility; and other Correction Officers known to plaintiffs, all Defendants being sued individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

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

September 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Albany, N. Y., for plaintiffs; Dennis A. Kaufman, Lanny E. Walter, David Leven, New York City, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., of the State of N. Y., New York State Dept. of Law, Albany, N. Y., for defendants; David B. Roberts, Alan S. Kaufman, Asst. Attys. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION and ORDER

JAMES T. FOLEY, Senior District Judge.

The complaint in this action was drafted for the three named plaintiffs, inmates of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, by the Albany branch of the Prisoners' Legal Services of New York. Judge Edmund Port by decision of July 19, 1976, granted leave to the plaintiffs to proceed in forma pauperis, directed filing of the complaint and its service upon the fifteen named defendants without payment...

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