AMADOR v. ANDREWS

Docket No. 08-2079-pr.

655 F.3d 89 (2011)

Lucy AMADOR, Bobbie Kidd, Bette Jean McDonald, Jeanette Perez, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants, Stacie Calloway, Tonie Coggins, Latasha Dockery, Tanya Jones, Kristina Muehleisen, Laura Pullen, Corilynn Rock, Denise Saffioti, Shenyell Smith, Hope Susoh, Nakia Thompson, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants, Stephanie Dawson, Shantelle Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Anginell ANDREWS, Superintendent, Roberta Coward, Dennis Crowley, Alexandreena Dixon, Elaine Lord, Superintendent, Ronald Moscicki, Superintendent, Melvin Williams, Superintendent, Donald Wolff, DOCS Deputy Superintendent, Terry Baxter, DOCS Director of Personnel, Richard Roy, DOCS Inspector General, Barbara D. Leone, DOCS Director of the Sex Crimes Unit of the Inspector General's Office, Peter Brown, DOCS Director of the Bureau of Labor Relations, Glenn S. Goord, DOCS Commissioner, James Stone, Office of Mental Health Commissioner, Michael Evans, DOCS Correction Officer, Michael Galbreath, Sergeant Smith, Mario Pique, Jeffrey Shawver, Robert Smith, Officer Sterling, Delroy Thorpe, Pete Zawislak, Rick Larue, Rico Meyers, Frederick Brenyah, Charles Davis, Defendant-Cross-Defendants-Appellees, Clarence Davis, DOCS Correctional Officer, Defendant-Appellee, John E. Gilbert III, Officer, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee, Chris Sterling, Defendant-Counter-Defendant-Appellee, James Hudson, Cross-Claimant, Delroy Thorpe, Department of Correctional Services, Cross-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 19, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dori Lewis ( Lisa A. Freeman , on the brief), Prisoners' Rights Project Legal Aid Society, New York, NY, and Alison M. Mikkor ( Maeve O'Connor , John S. Craig , Donna Krouzman , Lauren Sypek on the brief), Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellants.

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

Joseph M. Latona , Buffalo, NY, for Appellee Charles Davis.

Christopher Kennedy ( David W. Novak , on the brief), Hinman Straub , P.C., Albany, NY, for Appellees Michael Evans and Jeffrey Shawver.

Linda M. Cronin ( Rocco G. Avallone , on the brief), Cronin & Byczek LLP, Lake Success, NY, for Appellees Rick Larue and Rico Meyers.

Hogan Willig and Diane R. Tiveron , of Counsel, Amherst, NY, for Appellee John E. Gilbert III.

Rachel Meeropol , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, and Giavanna Shay , Springfield, MA, for Amici Curiae The National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, National Prison Rape Elimination Commissioner, Professor of Law Brenda V. Smith, Stop Prisoner Rape, and Legal Momentum, in support of Appellants.

Joel Landau , James Bogin , Karen Murtagh-Monks , for Amicus Curiae Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Albany, NY, in support of Appellants.

Before: WINTER, CABRANES, and HALL, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Thirteen present and former female inmates of various New York state prisons appeal from Judge Duffy's dismissal of their class action complaint. The complaint, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, sought declaratory and injunctive relief compelling the Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS") to alter its practices and procedures so as to enhance the protection of the class from sexual assault, abuse, and harassment. The complaint also...

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