Legal Opinion
Manuel Soto v. Brooklyn Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 12, 1996No. 285, Docket 94-2152PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
This appeal concerns the not unusual situation of a pro se litigant who files a civil rights suit against an institutional defendant without naming the individual defendants who might be liable for the claims he is endeavoring to assert. Manuel Soto appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Eugene H. Nickerson, Judge), dismissing a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Brooklyn Correctional Facility for failure to allege that the conduct of which Soto complains was intentional and part of a custom or policy…
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