Legal Opinion
Hynes v. Coughlin
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 21, 1996No. 795, Docket 95-2391PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEARSE, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Christopher Hynes, a New York State prisoner, appeals from so much of a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, following a jury trial before Robert W. Sweet, Judge, as (a) dismissed his claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) for damages from defendants-appellees, who were guards at the Green Haven Correctional Facility (“Green Haven”), for unreasonable use of force in retaliation for Hynes’s complaints about prison conditions, and (b) awarded defendant-appellee John Zemken $1,500 on his counterclaim against…
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