Legal Opinion
Hemphill v. New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 18, 2004No. 02-0164PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.
John Hemphill, an inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility (“Green Haven”) in Stormville, New York, filed suit, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging, inter alia, that the defendants used excessive force against him and denied him medical attention in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. After the Supreme Court held in Porter v. Nussle, 534 U.S. 516, 122 S.Ct. 983, 152 L.Ed.2d 12 (2002), that the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s exhaustion requirement, 42…
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