N.D. New York· 10/15/2015

Burroughs v. Petrone

Citations

138 F. Supp. 3d 182
2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142732
2015 WL 6066319

How courts have described this case

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collecting cases stating that allegations of verbal harassment are insufficient to state an Eighth Amendment claim
declining to dismiss the plaintiff’s claims against defendants who had “filed false misbehavior reports in retaliation for plaintiff's exercise of his constitutional rights”
finding a plaintiff’s generic claims that prison guards “threatened” him, “stopped” him from filing a petition, and interfered with his mail were conclusory and failed to state a claim
excessive force claim based on rough pat and frisk and push by officers, without other facts or injury alleged, dismissed
prisoner’s allegations of threats and harassment fail to state Eighth Amendment claim
“[A] pleading that contains only allegations which ‘are so vague as to fail to give the defendants adequate notice of the claims against them’ is subject to dismissal.” (quoting Sheehy v. Brown, 335 Fed. App’x 102, 104 (2d Cir. 2009)

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Judges: Hurd

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