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· 1/28/2010

Farid v. Ellen

Citations

  • 593 F.3d 233
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 1939
  • 2010 WL 308971

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing “personal involvement of defendants in alleged constitutional deprivations” as “prerequisite to an award of damages under § 1983” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • noting that personal involvement of defendants is a prerequisite for damages in § 1983 action
  • considering whether rules under which inmate was disciplined were unconstitutionally vague
  • “[T]he catch-all contraband rule allowed prison officials to determine in their unbounded discretion what was and was not” authorized in the facility.
  • the plaintiff must allege that the defendant was directly or personally involved in the claimed constitutional deprivation
  • “personal involvement of defendants in alleged constitutional deprivations is a prerequisite to an award of damages under § 1983”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Calabresi, Sack, Wesley

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