HYNES v. COUGHLIN

No. 795, Docket 95-2391.

79 F.3d 285 (1996)

Christopher HYNES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Robert J. McClellan, Charles Scully, George Duncan, C.O. Cobb and C.O. Shope, Defendants, Bobbie Jo Laboy, Sergeant, John Zemken, Corrections Officer, Michael Rhynders, Corrections Officer, Edward Doyle, Corrections Officer, Michael Capra, Corrections Officer, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew L. Guadagno, New York City (William D. Gibney, Prisoners' Legal Services, New York City, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jeanne Lahiff, Assistant Attorney General, New York City (Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of the State of New York, Charles F. Sanders, Thomas Hanna, Assistant Attorneys General, and Richard Teer, Law Intern, New York City, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before KEARSE, MINER, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Christopher Hynes, a New York State prisoner, appeals from so much of a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, following a jury trial before Robert W. Sweet, Judge, as (a) dismissed his claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) for damages from defendants-appellees, who were guards at the Green Haven Correctional Facility ("Green Haven"), for unreasonable use of force in retaliation...

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