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AHLERS v. RABINOWITZ

Docket No. 10-1193.

684 F.3d 53 (2012)

Karl AHLERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Steven RABINOWITZ, Director, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Dora Deatras, Ward D-9-B Treatment Team Leader, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Imogine Thompson, Ward D-9-B, Staff Member, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Felicity Moe, Ward D-9-B, Staff Member, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 6, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Dupree, Jr. ( Frederick Liu , Erik R. Zimmerman , on the brief), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.

David Lawrence III , Assistant Solicitor General ( Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Michael S. Belohlavek , Senior Counsel, on the brief), for Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, N.Y., for Appellees.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, CABRANES and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

Karl Ahlers appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Crotty, J.) dismissing his claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Ahlers is a convicted sex-offender who has been civilly committed post-release from prison. He alleges that when he was confined in the Manhattan Psychiatric Center (the "Center"), staff seized and withheld his personal DVDs and CDs and his incoming non...

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