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Type
Opinion
Author
Amalya Lyle Kearse
Filed
Dec. 19, 1995
Case
Rodriguez v. City of New York
Case status
Decided

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72 F.3d 1051 Florangel RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Eileen Sweeney, M.D., personally, and Douglas Lee, M.D., personally, Defendants-Appellees. No. 140, Docket 95-7009. United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Argued Sept. 8, 1995. Decided Dec. 19, 1995. William M. Brooks, Huntington, New York (Michael Bergman and John Hui, law student interns, Mental Disability Law Clinic, Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Huntington, New York, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant. Mordecai Newman, New York City (Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Larry A. Sonnenshein, New York City, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees. Before: FEINBERG, KEARSE, and LEVAL, Circuit Judges. KEARSE, Circuit Judge: 1 Plaintiff Florangel Rodriguez appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), Kimba Wood, Judge, (1) dismissing her claims pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 (1988) against defendants Eileen Sweeney, M.D., Douglas Lee, M.D., New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation ("HHC"), and the City…

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