ROMANO v. ULRICH

Docket No. 21-1303-pr August Term, 2021.

49 F.4th 148 (2022)

Anthony ROMANO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kevin ULRICH, C.O., Joseph Cianci, C.O., Gary Coviello, C.O., Daniel Leonard, C.O., Roy Bell, C.O., Gregory Carney, C.O., Jeffrey Hazard, Brian Feeney, Jeffrey LaCapruccia, Jeffrey Miller, Mark Cunningham, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DAVID BENTIVEGNA , Prisoners' Legal Services of New York ( Karen Murtagh , James Bogin , Michael Cassidy , on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellant.

JONATHAN D. HITSOUS , Assistant Solicitor General ( Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Andrea Oser , Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief), for Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y., for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: LIVINGSTON, Chief Judge, POOLER, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


Anthony Romano, a prisoner in New York, appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (John L. Sinatra, Jr., J.) granting summary judgment to defendant correction officers on his 28 U.S.C. § 1983 claim for excessive force.

Romano alleges that while he...

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