Legal Opinion
Rivera v. Goord
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 26, 2000No. 99 Civ. 1683(DC)PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Feliberto Rivera, Jr. brings this prisoner civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and 1986, alleging that various officials and employees of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”), as well as the St. Francis Medical Center, violated his rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Rivera’s claims arise from a dental procedure performed on him in prison in 1997; he claims that after the procedure, various defendants exhibited deliberate indifference to…
2Cases cited58 opinions
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- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by41 opinions
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