Legal Opinion
Ziemba v. Armstrong
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided May 17, 2006No. Civ.A. 3-98-cv-2344 (JCH)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING REGARDING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY AND DEFENDANT MANGIAFICO’S MOTIONS FOR JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW AND A NEW TRIAL
[Doc. Nos. 370 & 384]
HALL, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The plaintiff, Duane Ziemba, is a former inmate who bought this section 1983 suit against several employees of the Connecticut Department of Corrections. Ziemba’s claims concern an incident that occurred at the Department of Correction in August 1998, during which he was placed in four-point restraints, which held him face-down on a solid steel “bed,” and restrained in that position for a period of 22 and one-half hours.
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Sebastian Mangiafico v. Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, John Armstrong, and Theresa Lantz, Docket No. 05-5465-CvCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006
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