United States Second Circuit

In civil rights action involving wrongful disclosure of prisoner's HIV-status, a jury verdict in favor of defendant cannot preclude judgment on prisoner's Eighth Amendment claim where qualfied immunity defense was available for the former claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/09/2001
• Decided 04/06/2001
• Published 04/06/2001

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:, Before JACOBS and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and ARTERTON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Ostrowski, Buffalo, N.Y. (Salvatore P. Abbate, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Victor Paladino for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York, Albany, N.Y. (Nancy A. Spiegel and Daniel Smirlock, on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees.