Caldwell v. Luzerne County Corrections Facility Management Employees

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “subjecting [the plaintiff] to excessive force” because “he was filing a lawsuit against [the defendants]” would “clearly . . . be considered adverse”
• first quoting Griffin v. Vaughn, 112 F.3d 703, 709 (3d Cir.1997); then quoting Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 362–63 (1981)
• summary judgment granted where the Corrections Officer initiated violence by punching, pushing, spitting, verbally abusing, and using racial slurs against the Plaintiff amounted to only de minimus force at best

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).