REYNOLDS v. GOORD

No. 98 Civ. 6722(DLC).

103 F.Supp.2d 316 (2000)

Dennis REYNOLDS, Plaintiff, v. G. GOORD, Commissioner, D.O.C.S.; Christopher C. Artuz, Supt., Green Haven Correctional Facility; Norman Selwin, Md, Faculty Health Service Director; Larry Zwilliger, Regional Health Service Administrator; Catherine Metzler, Rn II; and Don Stevens, Nurse Administrator, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Beller, Lynn B. Bayard, Hillel C. Neuer, Jennifer Daskal, Eli Wald, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, for plaintiff.

Tiffany Foo, Jeffrey Horowitz, Rebecca Ann Durden, Assistant Attorneys General, New York, NY, for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

COTE, District Judge.

This case addresses the rationality of a policy of the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS") which places inmates who refuse to submit to a Mantoux skin test — which is designed to detect whether the inmate is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis ("TB") — into a restrictive confinement known as Tuberculin Hold...

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