SOTO v. COUGHLIN

No. 86 Civ. 1916 (EW).

666 F.Supp. 634 (1987)

Raul SOTO, Plaintiff, v. Thomas COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner; Stephen Dalsheim, Superintendent of Downstate Correctional Facility; and Gordon Lord, Program Coordinator of Downstate Correctional Facility, Defendants.

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

August 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City, for plaintiff; Daniel H. Weiner, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for defendants; Charles C. Davis, Jr., of counsel.


EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Raul Soto, filed this complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against employees of the New York State Correctional Department, alleging that the defendants violated his constitutional right to due process. The complaint alleges that in March 1985, Soto, then an inmate at the Downstate Correctional Facility, Fishkill, New York, was found guilty in a disciplinary proceeding of violation of prison regulations relating to...

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