Legal Opinion
Blissett v. Coughlin
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 25, 1995No. 1150, Docket 94-2527PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from judgment following a jury trial and verdict, entered on February 22, 1993 by the Honorable Alfredo Marquez (U.S.D.C.Ariz.), sitting by designation in the Western District of New York. Donovan Jack Richard Blissett, an inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility, filed a pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) against a number of New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) officials and employees, on September 14, 1984. Blissett’s Complaint charged a variety of constitutional claims arising from an alleged assault…
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