BLISSETT v. COUGHLIN

No. 1150, Docket 94-2527.

66 F.3d 531 (1995)

Donovan Jack Richard BLISSETT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III; Charles Hernandez; Harold J. Smith, Supt.; James E. Cochrane, D.S.S.; Capt. R. McCellane; Sgt. J.R. Rafferty; Officers Ronald G. Squires; John Doe Watson, also known as Cadillac; D. Bates; John Doe and Francis Mills; and Dr. Downs; R. Magee, P.A.; A. Wolcott, R.N.; Medical Personnel, each individually and in their official capacities, Defendants, Sgt. David Smith; Sgt. William Bowen; Officers Robert J. Clark; Edwin F. Helak and Howard Offhaus, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane Simkin Smith, Millbrook, NY, for plaintiff-appellee.

John McConnell, Assistant Attorney General, State of New York (G. Oliver Koppell, Attorney General of the State of New York, Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Solicitor General, Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for defendants-appellants Sgt. David Smith, Sgt. William Bowen; Officers Robert J. Clark, Edwin F. Helak and Howard Offhaus.

Before: MINER and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and BAER, District Judge.


PARKER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from judgment following a jury trial and verdict, entered on February 22, 1993 by the Honorable Alfredo Marquez (U.S.D.C.Ariz.), sitting by designation in the Western District of New York. Donovan Jack Richard Blissett, an inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility, filed a pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) against a number of New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) officials...

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