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PERANZO v. COUGHLIN

84 CIV 8787 (LBS).

608 F.Supp. 1504 (1985)

Peter PERANZO, Isadore Felix, Oscar Roman, Ferdinand Frilando, Robert Lawrence, Marcella Phipps, James Boyd, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Thomas COUGHLIN, Commissioner, New York State Department of Correctional Services, and Ramon Rodriguez, Chairman of the New York State Board of Parole, Gerald M. Burke, Joseph V. Salo, William J. Barnwell, Maurice Dean, Theodore Kirkland, Manuel Perron, Irving Greenberg, Maria Buchanan, Samuel D. Sherrid, Joseph Mulholland, Barbara Treen, and J. Kevin McNiff, Commissioners of New York State Board of Parole, in their Official Capacities, Defendants.

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

May 14, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prisoners' Legal Services of N.Y., Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for plaintiffs; Janet Packard, Robert Selcov, John Gresham, David C. Leven, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants; Maryellen Chomsky, Yolanda Pizarro, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel.

OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

I

As part of a continuing effort to deal with the troublesome problem of narcotics use within penal institutions,1 New York, as well as a number of other states, has adopted a program of randomly subjecting inmates' urine to the Syva EMIT2-st drug detection test.

The New York State Department of Correctional Services has promulgated Departmental Directive...

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