BROWN v. COUGHLIN

No. 87 Civ. 1326 (KTD).

758 F.Supp. 876 (1991)

James BROWN, Plaintiff, v. Thomas COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Stephen Dalsheim, Superintendent of the Downstate Correctional Facility; Dr. Anthony Forte, Senior Doctor at Downstate Correctional Facility; Lillian Carpenter, Nurse Administrator at Downstate Correctional Facility; Gregory Mitchell, Counselor at Downstate Correctional Facility; Jacqueline McMickens, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections; Allen Goldberg, Director of Prison Health Services of the New York City Department of Health; Thomas Reed, Prison Health Services Unit Administrator for Rikers Island Hospital; John Gallagher, Deputy Warden in Command of Rikers Island Hospital; Dr. Wallace Rooney, Medical Director of Rikers Island Hospital; Dr. Ernest Stuart, Chief Physician of Rikers Island Hospital; John McLaughlin, President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation; Ira Clark, Executive Director and Regional Administrator of the Kings County Hospital Center; Edward I. Koch, Mayor of the City of New York; individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

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

Amended Order March 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Koob, Magoolaghan & Salzman, New York City (Elizabeth L. Koob, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y. (Tarquin Jay Bromley, Barbara P. Demchuk, of counsel), Victor A. Kovner, Corp. Counsel (Norma Kerlin, of counsel), New York City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge:

Plaintiff James Brown commenced the instant civil rights action for deliberate indifference to his medical needs against the following defendants: (1) Thomas Coughlin, III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS"); (2) Stephen Dalsheim, Superintendent of the Downstate Correctional Facility ("Downstate"); (3) Dr....

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