United States Second Circuit

In a civil rights action regarding the conditions of plaintiff-inmate's confinement, plaintiff's motion for appointment of counsel in his appeal of a grant of defendants' motion for summary judgment is granted where plaintiff's claims met the threshold standard of likely merit and presented issues of substantial complexity such that appointment of counsel would be of significant benefit to the court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/21/2010
• Published 05/21/2010

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, POOLER, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Johnston, pro se, Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shawn P. Martin, Hurtz & Fine, P.C., Buffalo, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.