Sebastian Mangiafico v. Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, John Armstrong, and Theresa Lantz, Docket No. 05-5465-Cv

B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge.

BACKGROUND

Appellant Sebastian Mangiafico, a Captain in the Connecticut Department of Corrections, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Kravitz, J.), Mangiafico v. Blumenthal, et al., 358 F.Supp.2d 6 (D.Conn.2005), dismissing claims against Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on the ground of absolute immunity. In August 1998, while assigned to Connecticut’s Northern Correctional Institution, Mangiafico and other correctional officers were involved in the removal of an inmate, Duane Ziemba, from…