DEUTSCH v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS

No. 89 CIV. 3544 (RJW).

737 F.Supp. 261 (1990)

Melvin P. DEUTSCH, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, Michael J. Quinlan, Jessie R. James, John Brown, and Lawrence Coe, Jr., Defendants.

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

May 2, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin P. Deutsch, Deutsch, McCormick, D'Amato & Associates, Far Rockaway, N.Y., pro se.

Otto G. Obermaier, U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y. by Claude M. Millman, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

ROBERT J. WARD, District Judge.

Plaintiff, appearing pro se, filed an action claiming that his constitutional right under the Eighth Amendment to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was violated because he was required to share a prison cell with an inmate diagnosed as having the antibodies to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ("HIV"), a virus which is often a precursor to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ("AIDS"). Plaintiff...

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