ENG v. COUGHLIN

No. 74, Docket 88-2207.

865 F.2d 521 (1989)

George ENG, Joel Clayman, Ronald West, Martin Spence, John Griffin, Joseph Rivera, Raheem Supreme, Alonzo Starling, Kevin Richardson, Individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner of Corrections for the State of New York; Arthur Leonardo, Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Services; Donald Selsky, Acting Director of Special Housing, Department of Correctional Services; Harold J. Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility; William McAnulty, Deputy Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, in their official capacities, Defendants, v. NEW YORK STATE INSPECTION, SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES, DISTRICT COUNCIL 82, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, William Stranahan and Donald Dylag, Intervenors-Proposed-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna Marie Richmond, Buffalo, N.Y. (Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Buffalo, N.Y., David C. Leven, Executive Director, Judith Subjeck Stadler, Timothy E. Jennings, Law Clerk, Edna Y. Torres, Law Clerk, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Robert S. Hite, Albany, N.Y. (Rowley, Forrest and O'Donnell, P.C., Albany, N.Y., Brian O'Donnell, Mark T. Walsh, of counsel), for intervenors-proposed-defendants-appellants.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y. (Peter G. Crary, Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Dept. of Law, of counsel), for defendants.

Before LUMBARD, PRATT and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal, from a partial denial of an application for leave to intervene, is taken by the collective bargaining representative for certain state prison officers and by two of those officers whose superiors are defendants in a class action brought in 1980 by certain inmates at Attica Correctional Facility. The inmates allege that prison authorities and state correctional officials permitted...

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