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SALAHUDDIN v. COUGHLIN

No. 339, Docket 85-2058.

781 F.2d 24 (1986)

Abdul Yasin SALAHUDDIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner; Harold J. Smith, Superintendent of Attica; Richard R. Reynolds; Gerald R. Elmore; G. Calderon; D.E. Beitz, Officer; A. Lippold, Lt.; and All Employees of Attica Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven H. Latimer, New York City (David C. Leven, Prisoners' Legal Services of N.Y., New York City, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin A. Hotvet, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Robert Hermann, Sol. Gen., William J. Kogan, Asst. Sol. Gen., Albany, N.Y., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, NEWMAN and MINER, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal primarily concerns the availability of good-faith immunity to a civil rights action in a somewhat unusual context. Abdul Salahuddin appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Western District of New York (John T. Curtin, Chief Judge) dismissing, on motion for summary judgment, his complaint, which sought relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982). Appellant contends that: (1) defendants1

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