CLARKSON v. COUGHLIN

No. 91 Civ. 1792 (RWS).

898 F.Supp. 1019 (1995)

Doris CLARKSON, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff, and Janice Whan, Mark Brock, Terryton Harrison, Riss Powell, Glennis Robertson, and Larry Randall, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Individually and in His Capacity as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Defendants.

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

June 16, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Legal Aid Soc., Helaine Barnett, Attorney-in-Charge, Civil Div., Scott A. Rosenberg, Director of Litigation (Jane E. Sabel, Brigitte Laforest, of counsel), Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn (William E. Hellerstein, of counsel), New York City, for plaintiffs.

Dennis C. Vacco, Atty. Gen., New York City (Frederic L. Lieberman, Edward J. Curtis, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel), for defendants.


OPINION

SWEET, District Judge.

In this class action brought by deaf and hearing-impaired inmates in the custody of New York's Department of Corrections, plaintiffs move for declaratory judgment as to the existence of the statutory and constitutional rights they assert, for summary judgment on all their claims pursuant to Rule 56, Fed.R.Civ.P., and for preliminary and permanent injunctive relief. The claims asserted by the plaintiffs are:

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