Negron v. Ward

OPINION

ROBERT J. WARD, District Judge.

Defendant Vito Ternullo, at the time of the acts complained of, was Superintendent of Fishkill Correctional Facility, which included Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (“Matteawan”). 1 Following a jury trial, Ternullo moves pursuant to Rule 50(b), Fed.R.Civ.P., for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, for a new trial, on that portion of the verdict finding that plaintiffs Valentine A. Negron, George Dunleavy, Edward Carval-ho and Peter Perez, who at the time of the acts complained of were state prisoners confined at…