CLARK v. HANLEY

No. 22-302 August Term 2022.

89 F.4th 78 (2023)

Veronica-May CLARK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas HANLEY, Kevin Manley, Peter Murphy, Kimberly Weir, Roberto Quiros, and Jane and John Does 1-9, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 20, 2023.

Amended: December 27, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For Plaintiff-Appellant: Alexandra Bursak , ( Andrew D. Silverman , Jennifer M. Keighley , on the brief), Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY.

( Sasha Buchert and Richard Saenz , Lambda Legal, Washington D.C. and New York, NY, for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., The Amicus Project at UConn Law, Just Detention International, and Center for Constitutional Rights, as amici curiae).

( Richard Luedeman , Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, UConn School of Law, Hartford, CT, for Amicus Project at UConn Law, as amicus curiae).

For Defendants-Appellees: Stuart M. Katz ( Wilson T. Carroll , on the brief), Cohen and Wolf, P.C., Bridgeport, CT, on behalf of Defendant-Appellee Thomas Hanley.

Zenobia G. Graham-Days , Assistant Attorney General, for William Tong , Attorney General, Connecticut Office of the Attorney General, Hartford, CT, on behalf of Defendants-Appellees Kevin Manley, Peter Murphy, Kimberly Weir, Roberto Quiros, Jane and John Does 1-9.

Judge Chin dissents in a separate opinion.


During the summer of 2011, Plaintiff-Appellant Veronica-May Clark ("Clark"), an incarcerated transgender woman serving a 75-year term of imprisonment for murder, assault, and burglary, was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Defendant-Appellee Thomas Hanley ("Hanley"), a corrections officer at the Connecticut prison...

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