Legal Opinion
Juan Kent Branham v. Larry Meachum, Commissioner, Dept. Of Corrections Robert Kupec, Warden, Cci Somers and Lt. Champion, Cci Somers
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 22, 1996No. 617, Docket 94-2572PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-appellant Juan Kent Branham, a Connecticut state prisoner, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Daly, J.) dismissing his civil rights complaint pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). Branham’s complaint alleges that defendants-appellees Larry Meachum, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Correction, Robert Kupec, Warden of the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers (“Somers”), and Walter Champion, a corrections officer at Somers, violated his First, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment…
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