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15 PRESENT: HON. AMALYA L. KEARSE,
16 HON. DENNIS Jicoss, %_"'· éa APR 2 8 2005% T %
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20 Angel Caballero Jr.,
21 Plaintiff-Appellant, I
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23 John J. Armstrong, Commissioner,
24 I/O; Jack Tokarz, Deputy
25 Couunissioner I/O; Larry Myers, Lead
26 Warden, I/O; Peter Matos, Deputy
27 Commissioner, I/O; Thomas Coates,
28 I/O Capacity; Michael Lajoie, I/O
29 Capacity,
30 Defendants-Appellees,
31 Patrick Hynes, MD, I/O,
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1 Defendant. `
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4 APPEARING FOR APPELLANT: (On submission) Angel ,
5 Caballero Jr., Somers, CT }
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7 APPEARING FOR APPELLEES: (On submission) Richard
3 Blumenthal, Attorney General
9 of the State of Connecticut, §
10 Ann E. Lynch, Assistant i
11 Attorney General, Hartford, CT Q
12 Appeal from the United States District Court for the
13 District of Connecticut (Hall, ge).
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is UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, - V
16 ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment of the district y
17 court is AFFIRMED. Q
18 Angel Caballero Jr. appeals a July 12, 2004 judgment
19 of the United States District Court for the District of I
20 Connecticut (Hall, ge), granting the appellees' motion to
21 dismiss Caballero’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim. We assume (
22 that the parties are familiar with the facts, the ~
23 procedural history, and the scope of the issues presented
24 on appeal. {
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26 The only issue pressed on this appeal (and thereby
27 preserved), is whether the district court erred in Q
28 dismissing Caballero’s claim that the appellees violated E
29 his Eighth Amendment rights by requiring that he exercise f
30 in full restraints. However, Caballero previously )
31 litigated this issue in state court, and lost. See
32 Caballero v. Warden, No. 00-cv-3178, 2003 WL 139524, at i
33 *3 (Conn. Super. Ct. Jan. 2, 2003) (“[T]his court §
34 concludes that the petitioner-has failed to show that the j
35 restraints applied by the respondent to the petitioner
36 during his recreation violate the constitutional
- 37 prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.”). ‘
38 Caballero did not appeal the relevant state court ruling.
39 The district court correctly held that Caballero’s A
40 current claim is barred by the doctrine of collateral
41 estoppel. See Purdy v. Zeldes, 337 F.3d 253, 258 (2d
42 Cir. 2003) (“The doctrine of collateral estoppel prevents
43 a plaintiff from relitigating in a subsequent proceeding
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1 an issue of fact or law that was fully and fairly {
2 litigated in a prior proceeding.”) (citing Marvel .
3 Characters, Inc. v. Simon, 3lO F.3d 280, 288 (2d Cir.
4 2002)). - _
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6 For the reasons set forth above, the judgment of the )
7 district court is hereby AFFIRMED.
8 FOR THE couaw. )
9 ROSEANN B. Micxscumis, crsax )
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12 Lucille Carr, Deputy Clerk
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