McCANN v. PHILLIPS

No. 87 Civ. 0913 (LAK).

864 F.Supp. 330 (1994)

Vincent McCANN, Plaintiff, v. Roger PHILLIPS, Sheriff, and Dean Traverse, Lieutenant, Defendants.

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

September 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Tsougarakis, Jodi Edelson, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City, for plaintiff.

M. Kevin Coffey, Goshen, NY, for defendants.


OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

This action is brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a former inmate at the Orange County Correctional Facility ("OCCF") who claims that he was placed in "keeplock" for twenty-four hours in violation of his right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiff asserts that keeplock was imposed for punitive reasons, that this motivation triggered a right to an adversary hearing under Wolff v...

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