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FOWLER v. VINCENT

No. 72 Civ. 4759.

452 F.Supp. 449 (1978)

James FOWLER, Plaintiff, v. Leon J. VINCENT, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, and Joseph Powers, Correctional Officer of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

June 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fink & Meyers, New York City, for plaintiff; Elizabeth M. Fink, Daniel L. Meyers, New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for defendants; Joseph W. Henneberry, New York City, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

In 1972, James Fowler, then an inmate at the Green Haven Correctional Facility, filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated by Joseph Powers, a guard at Green Haven, and by Leon Vincent, the facility's warden. He claimed that he was the victim of an unprovoked assault by Officer Powers, in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due...

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