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JOHNSON v. TESTMAN

No. 02-0145.

380 F.3d 691 (2004)

Lawrence JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ronald TESTMAN, Lonnie James, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 18, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Boston, Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project, New York, N.Y. (Daniel L. Greenberg and Mary Lynne Werlwas, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

F. Franklin Amanat, Assistant U.S. Attorney, for Roslynn R. Mauskopf, U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Deborah B. Zwany, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: CALABRESI and SACK, Circuit Judges, and PAULEY, District Judge.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

Lawrence Johnson ("Johnson" or "plaintiff"), formerly an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center ("MDC") in Brooklyn, New York, filed suit against the defendants, corrections officers at MDC, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Johnson, proceeding pro se, sought damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for injuries sustained when he was attacked by another inmate, who was allegedly incited by

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