STORMS v. COUGHLIN

No. 84 Civ. 5779-CSH.

600 F.Supp. 1214 (1984)

Donald STORMS, John D. Cramer, Richard Freggans, Joseph Clayborne, Plaintiffs, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN III, James E. Sullivan, Co. O. Brady, Co. O. Merritt, Unknown C.O.'s, Defendants.

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

December 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Storms, John D. Cramer, Richard Freggans, Joseph Clayborne, pro se.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants; Eugene Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

In an effort to control drug use among state prisoners, New York State prison officials recently instituted a program of daily tests for traces of narcotics and marijuana in the urine of prisoners assertedly selected at random from the whole prison population. The plaintiffs, four inmates at Ossining Correctional Facility, challenge this practice as violative of their Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment...

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