Griffin v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that plaintiff must demonstrate that \defendant's actions resulted in an actual injury\
• dismissing due process claims based on prison discipline where the court c[ould not] discern whether the plaintiff’s punishment “constituted an atypical and severe hardship” (citation and quotation marks omitted
• noting in Eighth Amendment context that “even without . . . injuries, Defendants’ actions could still constitute excessive force because the use of entirely gratuitous force is unreasonable and therefore excessive” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “Plaintiff's ability to ultimately pursue his legal claims in this Court necessarily precludes a constitutional claim based on denial of access to the courts.”
• dismissal proper in absence of allegations of “any meaningful comments, actions, or examples of similarly-situated persons outside of [his] protected class being treated differently”
• “failure to exhaust administrative remedies in compliance with the PLRA is an affirmative defense” that “‘may be waived by a defendant, or forfeited by failure to raise the defense.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).