Legal Opinion
Sims v. Blot
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 18, 2008No. Docket 06-0644-opPublishedCited by 445 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEARSE, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Nathaniel Sims, a New York State (“State”) prisoner who is pursuing an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against State corrections officers for the alleged use of excessive force against him on December 20, 1999, seeks a writ of mandamus to set aside a discovery order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Loretta A. Preska, Judge, requiring disclosure of Sims’s privileged psychiatric treatment records for the period December 20, 1997, through January 20, 2000. The district court ruled that Sims’s deposition testimony as…
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