Cepeda v. Coughlin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtWeiss, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Conway, J.), entered March 17, 1986 in Albany County, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Plaintiffs are inmates at Great Meadow Correctional Facility and, except for defendant Commissioner of Correctional Services, the remaining defendants are correction officers and their superiors at the facility. In this action pursuant to 42 USC § 1983, plaintiffs allege that the correction officers used excessive force and assaulted them on June 25, 1984 during an inmate disturbance which originated…
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