Palmer v. Board of Assessors

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• concluding that a claim arising out of allegations of sexual assault at the hands of prison officials presents a new Bivens context
• noting that the inmate-plaintiff’s “Eighth Amendment sexual assault, failure to protect, failure to intervene, and failure to investigate claims” presented “new Bivens contexts”
• dismissing, with prejudice, plaintiff’s Bivens claim against federal agency at screening, based on sovereign immunity
• finding it in the interest of justice to sever and transfer the claims against the defendants over whom the court lacked jurisdiction to an appropriate venue
• finding conditions of confinement claim requires plaintiff to plead facts showing defendants were deliberately indifferent to a risk of harm presented by dangerous conditions of confinement
• citing, Smith v. Mensinger, 293 F.3d 641, 651 (3d Cir. 2002)

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