WRIGHT v. COUGHLIN

No. 96-2276.

132 F.3d 133 (1998)

Thomas WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner, Department of Correctional Services; Donald Selsky, Deputy Commissioner, Special Housing and Discipline, Department of Correctional Services; Bennedict, Captain, Hearing Officer, Attica Correctional Facility; Walter Kelly, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility; J. Kihl, Hearing Officer, Attica Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Wright, pro se, Fallsburg, NY.

Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, NY (Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Solicitor General; Peter G. Crary, Assistant Attorney General; Martin A. Hotvet, Assistant Attorney General, Albany, New York of counsel) for defendants-appellees.

Before: WALKER, Jr., LEVAL, Circuit Judges, and STANTON, District Judge.


JOHN M. WALKER Jr., Circuit Judge:

Thomas Wright, ("Wright") a prisoner, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Leslie G. Foschio, Magistrate Judge), that denied his motion to reconsider the district court's judgment dismissing his claims as to two defendants and granting summary judgment to another. Wright sued employees of the New York Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS") for violating his...

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