Shuler v. Edwards

DECISION AND ORDER

LARIMER, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Kenneth Shuler, appearing pro se, commenced this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff, who at the time the complaint was filed was an inmate in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”), has two defendants, Thomas Edwards and Mary Heltz, who at all relevant times were a physician’s assistant and a nurse employed by DOCS, alleging that his constitutional rights were violated in connection with his treatment for a fractured fibula in November 2002, while plaintiff was confined at Attica Correctional…