PETTUS v. MORGENTHAU

Docket No. 07-0395-pr.

554 F.3d 293 (2009)

James PETTUS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert MORGENTHAU, Charles Hynes, People of the City and State of New York, Randolph Clark, A.D.A. Frank Dubis, Glen Goord, Theresa Knapp, Ann and Any John Does, Donald Selsky, Capt. Richards, Lt. McGeever, Capt. Wenderlich, James Esgrow, Kenneth McLaughlin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 28, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wanda D. Brown,* Jonathan D. Henry* (Jon Romberg, Esq., of counsel), Newark, N.J., for Amicus Curiae Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Social Justice in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant.

Martin A. Hotvet, Assistant Solicitor General (Andrea Oser, Deputy Solicitor General, Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, on the brief), Albany, N.Y., for Amicus Curiae Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, in Support of Defendants-Appellees.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, and GERSHON, District Judge.


LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant James Pettus is a prisoner in New York State, where he is serving a sentence of six to twelve years for grand larceny in the third degree, welfare fraud in the third degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, and forgery in the second degree. He is also a frequent litigant in this Circuit, who appears on this Court's docket sheet as an appellant, movant, or petitioner in over sixty matters and...

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