BRANHAM v. MEACHUM

No. 617, Docket 94-2572.

77 F.3d 626 (1996)

Juan Kent BRANHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Larry MEACHUM, Commissioner, Dept. of Corrections; Robert Kupec, Warden, CCI Somers and Lt. Champion, CCI Somers, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ellen Donnelly, New York City (James F. Gill, Mark D. Risk, Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, New York City, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Stephen R. Sarnoski, Assistant Attorney General, Hartford, CT (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: KEARSE, MINER and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Juan Kent Branham, a Connecticut state prisoner, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Daly, J.) dismissing his civil rights complaint pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). Branham's complaint alleges that defendants-appellees Larry Meachum, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Correction, Robert Kupec, Warden of the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers...

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