HERNANDEZ v. COUGHLIN

No. 623, Docket 92-2292.

18 F.3d 133 (1994)

John HERNANDEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections; Joseph Pranzenica, Family Service Coordinator; and Dean Riley, Superintendent Fishkill Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Erichson, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, N.Y. (Thomas J. Moloney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, N.Y., of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Clement J. Colucci, Assistant Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, N.Y., of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: ALTIMARI and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and OWEN, District Judge.


ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant John Hernandez appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kram, J.), dismissing his complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The complaint presents a claim for deprivation of constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In the complaint, Hernandez alleges that defendants-appellees...

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