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HENDRICKS v. COUGHLIN

No. 607, Docket 89-2099.

942 F.2d 109 (1991)

Stephen HENDRICKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Ronald Haddad, Walter R. Kelly, Hans Walker, Donald Acquard, Thomas Dudek and William Stranahan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Stein, New York City (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

John W. McConnell, Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Albany, N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., Nancy A. Spiegel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, and CARDAMONE and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

The principal issue on this appeal is whether a jury charge adequately described the standard of liability prison officials are held to in an inmate's action claiming they failed to protect him from another inmate's violent actions. We recognize that prisons are reputedly full of suppressed violence, shouldering prison administrators with the most difficult task of maintaining order and discipline over the entire prison population. Yet, inmates...

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