DAVIS v. GOORD

Docket No. 01-0116.

320 F.3d 346 (2003)

Robert DAVIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Glenn S. GOORD; Christopher Artuz; Sabina Kaplan; John P. Keane; Mervat Makram; Frank Lancellotti; Janice Diehl; Thomas Briggs; Tim Terbush; and Thomas Egan, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 11, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Davis, pro se, Comstock, NY.

Allison Penn, Assistant Solicitor General, State of New York, New York, N.Y. (Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General; Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General; Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: CALABRESI and B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judges, and STEIN, District Judge.


STEIN, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

The following facts are as alleged in the complaint:

In May 1998, Robert Davis, then an inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility, a New York state maximum security prison, filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against defendants Artuz, Kaplan and other prison officials. Soon thereafter, Davis was transferred to a medium security prison, Woodbourne Correctional Facility.

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