DIXON v. VON BLANCKENSEE

Docket No. 20-1651-pr August Term, 2020.

994 F.3d 95 (2021)

Male DIXON, aka James King, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Warden Barbara VON BLANCKENSEE, Individually, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 12, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Kochevar , Assistant United States Attorney, for Audrey Strauss , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

David C. Russell ( Kent A. Yalowitz , on the brief), Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Samuel Weiss , Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Rights Behind Bars.

Before: Lynch and Bianco, Circuit Judges, and Halpern, District Judge.


This case stems from actions that allegedly occurred during a civil case that Plaintiff-Appellee James King1 filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 2015. At the time of that filing, King was serving a sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution at Otisville...

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