Sam Williams v. Dwight Browman Grant Harris Daniel Barnes

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• concluding that a “verified complaint … would have the same force and effect as an affidavit” for purposes of summary judgment
• finding that for evidentiary purposes, plaintiff’s verified complaint, which contained “nothing but mere conclusory allegations” could not survive a motion for summary judgment” in favor of the defendants
• finding that, in a summary judgment motion on the basis of exhaustion, defendants who failed to provide evidence disproving a prisoner’s verified claims had not met their burden of persuasion.
• “[I]n the prison context, good faith use of physical force may be necessary to maintain prison security and discipline[.]”
• “[I]n the prison context, good faith use of physical force may be necessary to maintain prison security and discipline[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).