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SPENCER v. DOE

No. 533, Docket 97-2154.

139 F.3d 107 (1998)

Kirk Anthony SPENCER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John DOE, Director, I/O; John Doe, Assistant Director, I/O; Jane Doe, Principal, I/O; John A. Johnson, I/O; Edward J. Bartley, I/O; Harlem Valley Secure Center Division For Youth, I/O; New York State Division for Youth, I/O; JOHN DOE, I/O; Defendants, Pricilla Johnson, I/O; Charles Salvador, I/O; Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy L. Fishman, Yale Law School, New Haven, CN, Brett Dignam, The Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, New Haven, CN (Fiona Mary Doherty, Harry Jho, law Students Interns, Yale Law School, New Haven, CN, of counsel and on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General for the State of New York, New York City, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: CARDAMONE and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges, and CONNER, District Judge.

CONNER, Senior District Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Kirk Spencer brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that he was sexually abused as a juvenile at the Harlem Valley Secure Center ("HVSC") while in the custody of the New York State Division for Youth ("NYSDY"). His amended complaint names as defendants these two state agencies, the HVSC teacher who allegedly abused him, his counselor/therapist at HVSC, and various named and unnamed officials...

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