MacLean v. Secor

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a constitutional claim based on verbal threats will fail whether asserted under the ban against cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment or the substantive due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment
• explaining that a “constitutional claim based only on verbal threats will fail”
• “It is well established that verbal harassment or threats will not . . . without some reinforcing act accompanying them, state a constitutional claim.”
• “It is well established that verbal harassment or threats will not . . . without some reinforcing act accompanying them, state a constitutional claim.”
• “It is well established that verbal harassment or threats will not . . . without some reinforcing act accompanying them, state a constitutional claim.”
• “It is well established that verbal harassment or threats will not . . . without some reinforcing act accompanying them, state a constitutional claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).