RUDOLPH v. CUOMO

Nos. 92 Civ. 3402, 92 Civ. 4735, 92 Civ. 4737, 92 Civ. 5335, 93 Civ. 1414 and 92 Civ. 7365 (SWK) (THK).

916 F.Supp. 1308 (1996)

Lynn RUDOLPH, Joey Abney, Theodore Toler, Charles H. Hamilton, Kenneth Iniss, Gary Vann, Jeffrey Davis, Robert S. Shaheer, Ronald Gantt, George Lewis, and LeRoy Williams on behalf of Themselves and a Class Consisting of All Similarly Situated Individuals, Plaintiffs, v. Mario CUOMO, Governor of New York State, Patrick J. Bulgaro, Director of the New York State Division of the Budget, Thomas A. Coughlin III, Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services, Christopher Artuz, Acting Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Cyril Coefield, Acting Deputy Superintendent of Security of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Defendants. Thomas BERRY, Stanley Punter, and John Lopez, Plaintiffs, v. Mario CUOMO, Governor of New York State, Robert Abrams, Attorney General of New York State, Thomas A. Coughlin III, Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services, Charles J. Scully, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, and Wallace Oldham, Deputy Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Defendants.

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

February 21, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debevoise & Plimpton by Rodney W. Ott, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of the State of New York by Barbara K. Hathaway, New York City, for Defendants.


KRAM, District Judge.

In these consolidated civil rights actions brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiffs, a class of inmates including all inmates incarcerated at New York State's Green Haven Correctional Facility ("Green Haven") from January 1, 1992 to the present, who were or are now subject to either of the two policies at issue in this case, challenge as unconstitutional two changes in the regulations of the New York Department of Correctional Services...

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