Legal Opinion
Kounelis v. Sherrer
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided January 3, 2008No. Civ. 04-4714 (DRD)PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DEBEVOISE, Senior District Judge.
This case arises out of a November 14, 2003 altercation between Plaintiff, Michael Kounelis, and guards at the Northern State Prison (“NSP”), in Newark, New Jersey, where Kounelis was an inmate. Kounelis alleges that guards assaulted him in retaliation for complaints he had made against one of them and that they, and other Defendants, took further action against him that violated his First, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. He brings his action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and also asserts certain state law claims. Defendants are Lydell Sherrer, NSP’s…
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