WALKER v. SCHULT

Docket No. 20-2415 August Term, 2020.

45 F.4th 598 (2022)

Ellis WALKER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Deborah G. SCHULT, Warden, FCI Ray Brook, Jackii Sepanek, Counselor, FCI Ray Brook, Defendants-Appellants, Russell Perdue, Warden, FCI Ray Brook, David Salamy, Unit Manager, FCI Ray Brook, David Porter, Associate Warden, FCI Ray Brook, Anne Mary CARTER, Associate Warden, FCI Ray Brook, Steven Wagner, Associate Warden, FCI Ray Brook, J.L. Norwood, Regional Director, Harley Lappin, Director, Bureau of Prisons, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 16, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MEGAN BEHRMAN , New York, New York ( Blake Denton , William O. Reckler , Latham & Watkins, New York, New York, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

LOWELL V. STURGILL JR. , Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC ( Jeffrey Bossert Clark , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Brian M. Boynton , Acting Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Antoinette T. Bacon , Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Albany, New York; Barbara L. Herwig , Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

Samuel Weiss , Washington, DC (for Amicus Curiae Rights Behind Bars), David M. Shapiro , Chicago, Illinois (for Amicus Curiae Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center), filed a brief in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: KEARSE, LYNCH, and CHIN, Circuit Judges.


Defendants Deborah G. Schult and Jackii Sepanek ("Defendants"), federal prison officials, appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York following a jury trial before Daniel J. Stewart, Magistrate Judge, awarding former prisoner Ellis Walker $20,000 for mental...

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