HERNÁNDEZ v. COFFEY

Docket No. 06-4246-pr.

582 F.3d 303 (2009)

José HERNÁNDEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kevin R. COFFEY, C.O., Lawrence J. Featherston, P.O., James Chamberlain, Sgt., M. Taylor, Nurse, Defendant-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 21, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Epstein (Vilia B. Hayes, on the brief), Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard O. Jackson, Assistant Solicitor General (Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, and Benjamin N. Gutman, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief), for Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER, and LEVAL, Circuit Judges.


LEVAL, Circuit Judge:

José Hernández, an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility, appeals from the grant of summary judgment by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pauley, J.), dismissing Hernández's suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which alleged that he was beaten by defendant corrections officers and denied medical treatment by defendant nurse. Hernández, who is represented by counsel on this appeal...

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