Bussey v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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• finding that permanent removal from a job assignment did not arise to the type of conduct implicating the Eighth Amendment
• removal from prison job “well within the terms of confinement ordinarily contemplated by [a] prison sentence”
• “[Plaintiff’s] due process claims are against state, not federal, actors, and thus the Fourteenth Amendment, rather than the Fifth Amendment, applies to these claims.”
• allegations that are “enough to survive a motion to dismiss” “must be supported by specific facts raising a genuine issue for trial” at the summary judgment stage
• “To the extent that [plaintiff] is arguing that additional discovery would allow him to amend his complaint to state a viable claim, the Court is similarly unpersuaded . . . [d]iscovery is not intended to be a fishing expedition.”
• “To the extent that [plaintiff] is arguing that additional discovery would allow him to amend his complaint to state a viable claim, the Court is similarly unpersuaded . . . [d]iscovery is not intended to be a fishing expedition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).