Collazo v. Pagano

Plaintiff-appellant Steven Collazo, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility (“Great Meadow”), filed suit, pro se, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Norman A. Mordue, Chief Judge) against three Great Meadow employees. Collazo’s suit, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleges that he was improperly denied access to medically-prescribed therapeutic diets, resulting in violations of his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.

The litigation did not go well for…