United States Second Circuit

The district court's grant of defendants' Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law, and dismissing plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment, are affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2003
• Published 08/20/2003

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, JACOBS and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jason E. Halper,Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, NJ (Martin E. Karlinsky, Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William B. Jaffe, Assistant Attorney General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Marion R. Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.