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GREENWOOD v. STATE, OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH

No. 96-9261.

163 F.3d 119 (1998)

Albert GREENWOOD, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The State OF NEW YORK, Office of Mental Health; Manhattan Psychiatric Center; Gabrial Koz, M.D.; Michael H. Ford, M.D.; Yves Chenier, M.D.; Miodrag Ristich, M.D.; Willy Mautner, M.D.; Kenneth Kahaner, M.D.; and Ruby Cohen Pasini, C.S.W., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 11, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. McLaughlin, Auburndale, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Thomas B. Litsky, Assistant Attorney General of New York, Albany, N.Y. (Dennis Vacco, Attorney General of New York, John W. McConnell, Deputy Solicitor General, Michael Belohlavek, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: CALABRESI, SACK, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Albert Greenwood appeals from a judgment dated August 29, 1996 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Loretta A. Preska, District Judge). The district court granted summary judgment to the defendant-appellee state officials in Greenwood's suit brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983; it did so on the ground that the officials had qualified immunity.1

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