Reyes v. Gardener

SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiff-Appellant Roderick Reyes, an inmate at Coxsackie Correctional Facility during the time relevant to this appeal, appeals from an award of summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees, which dismissed Reyes’s claim, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for violation of his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. See U.S. Const., amend VIII. Specifically, Reyes complains that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his need for stronger medication than was prescribed to treat two painful sickle cell crises on May 6, 1999, and August 17,…