Legal Opinion
Willey v. Kirkpatrick
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 28, 2015No. Docket No. 13-699PublishedCited by 423 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Chief Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Aaron Willey alleges that, while incarcerated in New York, he endured a cruel campaign of harassment at the hands of corrections officers in retaliation for his refusal to provide false information against another inmate. The course of retaliatory conduct he alleges included smaller indignities like frequent harassment and a week’s worth of meals that were nutritionally inadequate. But Willey also alleges that he was on three occasions exposed to unsanitary conditions of confinement in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The most grotesque exposure…
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