Orwat v. Maloney

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• noting that plaintiff’s “gesture and words, though concededly belligerent, were not threatening” enough to justify defendant hitting plaintiff in the face
• allowing summary judgment for defendant on plaintiff prisoner’s MCRA claim for excessive force in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights
• no liberty interest involved when prisoner was placed in a segregation unit for eight months
• while inmate may have established a violation of his Eighth Amendment right to be free from the use of excessive force, that is a direct violation of his constitutional right and does not constitute a violation of the MCRA
• while inmate may have established a violation of his Eighth Amendment right to be free from the use of excess force, that is a direct violation of his constitutional right and does not constitute a violation of the MCRA

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