Merriweather v. Reynolds

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a plaintiff’s allegations of continuous threats to his life, amongst others, to be “unsupported, vague, self-serving, conclusory speculation” insufficient to satisfy the imminent danger exception
• finding that a plaintiff's 16 allegations of continuous threats to his life, amongst others, to be “unsupported, vague, self- 17 serving, conclusory speculation” insufficient to satisfy the imminent danger exception
• finding that 17 a plaintiff's allegations of continuous threats to his life, amongst others, to be “unsupported, 18 vague, self-serving, conclusory speculation” insufficient to satisfy the imminent danger 19 exception
• finding that a plaintiff's 11 allegations of continuous threats to his life, amongst others, to be “unsupported, vague, self- 12 serving, conclusory speculation” insufficient to satisfy the imminent danger exception
• no liberty interest in being “housed in a particular institution, at particular custody level, or in a particular portion or unit of a correctional institution” (collecting cases)
• “[C]ourts have specifically held that where a prisoner is alleging emotional damages, but has not shown that they are in imminent danger of physical harm, they can still be barred by the PLRA’s ‘three strikes’ provision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).