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AVILA v. KNIGHT

No. 77 Civ. 189 (LBS).

475 F.Supp. 1054 (1979)

Eco AVILA, a/k/a Nelson Hernandez, Plaintiff, v. David KNIGHT et al., Defendants.

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

August 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stacy Caplow, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plaintiff.

Mark L. Schwartz, Asst. Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendants.

SAND, District Judge.

In this case, we deal with a civil action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983 and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The plaintiff, Avila, was an inmate in the New York House of Detention for Men on Riker's Island. Avila seeks damages and equitable relief, claiming that he was unjustifiably assaulted by David Knight, a corrections officer, and subsequently subjected to inhuman conditions in punitive...

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