LEWIS v. SIWICKI

Docket No. 17-3449 August Term 2019.

944 F.3d 427 (2019)

Christopher J.M. LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Brian SIWICKI, David Butkiewicus, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 6, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosendo Garza, Jr. ( Daniel E. Wenner , on the brief), Day Pitney LLP, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellant Christopher J.M. Lewis.

James W. Caley , Asst. Atty. General, ( George Jepsen , Atty. General, on the brief), Connecticut Office of the Attorney General, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellees Siwicki and Butkiewicus.

Judge Park dissents in a separate opinion.


The principal issue on this appeal is whether state prison officials were entitled to summary judgment on an Eighth Amendment claim by a state prisoner that they were deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious harm. Christopher J.M. Lewis appeals from the Sept. 28, 2017, judgment of the District Court...

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