Legal Opinion
Davis v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 19, 2001No. 99 CIV. 1416(LAK)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a former inmate at Riker’s Island, brings this Section 1983 action against the City of New York, former Corrections Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and a number of “John Does” in an effort to recover damages allegedly suffered when he was kept in medical isolation for a seven-day period in June 1998 after refusing to give a blood sample at an initial medical screening. He complains that the defendants’ actions violated his rights under the Fourth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Charitably read, moreover, his pro se complaint arguably…
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