Meriwether v. Coughlin

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1989-06-30

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OAKES, Chief Judge: This class action involves the claims of New York State prisoners that their civil rights were violated when they were transferred to different prisons and beaten in 1980. After a jury found for the plaintiffs on all of their claims, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Charles E. Stewart, Senior Judge, entered judgment n.o.v. in favor of the defendants on the plaintif…

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