Chris Hynes v. Lieutenant Drake, Hearing Officer, Thomas A. Coughlin, Iii, Commissioner of the Department of Corrections

Plaintiff-appellant Chris Hynes appeals from an October 12,1995 order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Loretta A. Preska, Judge) granting defendants’ motion to dismiss Hynes’s complaint and denying Hynes’s request for permission to amend his complaint. See Hynes v. Drake, No. 94 Civ. 758RLAP), 1995 WL 608368, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 16, 1995). On August 28, 1996, we dismissed Hynes’s appeal with the exception of the narrow issue of whether the district court should have granted Hynes permission to amend his complaint to add Correction Officer M. Fierro as…