Legal Opinion
Kenneth Gaston v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III Donald Selsky Lt. Grant Lebaron, Lt. Hans Walker Frank Irvin Edward Dann John Doe, Confidential Informant
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 7, 2001No. 19-648PublishedCited by 256 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEARSE, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Kenneth L. Gaston, a New York State (“State”) prisoner, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, David G. Larimer, Chief Judge, dismissing his complaint brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994), alleging principally (1) that various officials and employees of the State’s Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”) violated his due process rights by sentencing him to a two-year (later reduced to one-year) period of confinement in punitive segregation on the basis of an unreliable hearsay statement of an…
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