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RANGOLAN v. COUNTY OF NASSAU

Docket Nos. 99-9343, 99-9397.

217 F.3d 77 (2000)

Neville RANGOLAN and Shirley Rangolan, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. THE COUNTY OF NASSAU and Nassau County Sheriff's Department, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 26, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Keefe, Jr., Montfort, Healy, McGuire & Salley, Special Counsel to Owen B. Walsh, Nassau County Attorney (Michael G. Kruzynski, of counsel), Garden City, New York, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Robert M. Ginsberg, Ginsberg & Broome, P.C., New York, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, KATZMANN, Circuit Judge, and HODGES, District Judge.

WINTER, Chief Judge:

Neville Rangolan was beaten by a fellow prisoner while both were inmates in the Nassau County Jail. Claiming that Rangolan should not have been housed in the same unit as the other inmate, he and his wife brought the present action alleging both negligence under New York law and deliberate indifference to his safety amounting to a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court dismissed the Section 1983...

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