Favors v. Coughlin

Appellant James Favors appeals from an April 5, 1988 order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (McCurn, J.), which adopted the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate and thereby granted ap-pellees’ motion to dismiss Favors’s civil rights complaint. Favors filed this pro se civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) asserting that, as the result of an altercation allegedly initiated by correctional officers at Clinton Correctional Facility, excessive force was used by the officers in restraining him, and that the use of force was…