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PERANZO v. COUGHLIN

No. 84 CIV 8787 (LBS).

675 F.Supp. 102 (1987)

Peter PERANZO, Isadore Felix, Oscar Roman, Ferdinand Frilando, Robert Lawrence, Marcella Phipps, James Boyd, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner, New York State Department of Correctional Services, and Ramon Rodriguez, Chairman of the New York State Board of Parole, Gerald M. Burke, Joseph V. Salo, William J. Barnwell, Maurice Dean, Theodore Kirkland, Manuel Perron, Irving Greenberg, Maria Buchanan, Samuel D. Sherrid, Joseph Mulholland, Barbara Treen, and J. Kevin McNiff, Commissioners of New York State Board of Parole, in their Official Capacities, Defendants.

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

October 26, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, New York City, for plaintiffs; William D. Gibney, John A. Gresham, David C. Leven, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants; Maryellen Chomsky, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

In this class action brought by New York State prisoners against individual employees of New York's Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and Board of Parole, the plaintiffs allege that the Syva Company's EMIT-st urinalysis drug test as performed by DOCS is so unreliable as to render the use of the results as evidence in a disciplinary hearing and in parole decisions a denial...

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