Azor v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mitchell J. Danziger, J.), entered on or about September 5, 2014, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff’s claim for alleged civil rights violations during disciplinary hearing proceedings, under 42 USC § 1983, is barred by the three-year statute of limitations (see CPLR 214 [5]; Owens v Okure, 488 US 235, 250 [1989]; 423 S. Salina St. v City of Syracuse, 68 NY2d 474, 486 [1986], cert denied 481 US 1008 [1987]). Plaintiff’s time to commence the section 1983 action began to accrue on the date of the disciplinary hearing determination, as it impliedly challenged the conditions of his confinement, namely, punitive segregation, and not the fact or duration of his confinement (see Jenkins v Haubert, 179 F3d 19 [2d Cir 1999]; cf. Edwards v Balisok, 520 US 641 [1997]; Heck v Humphrey, 512 US 477 [1994]). That plaintiff was a pretrial detainee, at the time, does not bring this claim outside of the purview of Jenkins.