QUARTARARO v. CATTERSON

No. 93-CV-4059 (JS).

917 F.Supp. 919 (1996)

Michael QUARTARARO, Plaintiff, v. James M. CATTERSON, District Attorney of Suffolk County; Mark Cohen, Chief Assistant District Attorney; Demetri Jones, Donald Byrnes, and Michael Miller, Assistant District Attorneys; Timothy Mazzei and William Keahon, former Assistant District Attorneys, as past and present employees of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office; New York State Division of Parole, Paul Russi, Chairman, Martin Horn, Executive Director of the New York State Department of Parole, William K. Altschuller, Director of the Appeals Unit of the New York State Department of Parole, Patrick Hoy, Area Supervisor, Philip Deluca, and John Callender, Senior Parole Officers; Gerald Burke, Thomas Biddle, Maria Rivera Buchanan, Leo Levy, J. Kevin McNiff, Anthony Umina, Barbara Treen, Daniel Tauriello, George King, Julian Rose, Parole Commissioners, and others, as employees of the Division of Parole; the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Thomas A. Coughlin, Commissioner, James F. Recore, Director of Temporary Release Programs, Brian Fischer, Superintendent of Queensboro Correctional Facility, Enoc Esteves, Deputy Superintendent, William Lester, Senior Counselor and Temporary Release Chairman, Rudolph F. Jeffrey, Correction Counselor, as employees of the Department of Correctional Services; the New York State Commission of Correction, William G. McMahon, former Commissioner, Defendants.

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

January 25, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Cohen, Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc., New York City, for Plaintiff.

Rebecca Ann Durden, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Department of Law, New York City, for State DOCS, Parole and Commission Defendants.

William H. Pauley III, Snitow & Pauley, New York City, for District Attorney Defendants Catterson, Cohen, Jones and Miller.

Garrett W. Swenson, Jr., Assistant County Attorney, Suffolk County Department of Law, Hauppauge, NY, for Former Prosecutor Defendants Byrnes, Keahon and Mazzei.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SEYBERT, District Judge:

In the instant federal civil-rights action, plaintiff Michael Quartararo, an inmate of the New York State correctional system, brings suit against the defendants alleging that they violated his federal constitutional rights through their conduct in bringing about his removal from a work release program, and in causing his parole applications to be denied. Defendants New York State Division of Parole [...

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