Scottish Nav. Co. v. Munson S. S. Line

How courts have described this case

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• stating that collateral estoppel applies when the issue in question was actually decided in a prior proceeding
• finding that no reasonable jury could hold superintendent liable where he took no action to investigate pending a Tier III hearing
• holding the temporal proximity of an adverse action in relation to the filing of an inmate grievance is circumstantial evidence of a causal connection so as to establish a retaliation claim
• commenting that, if only evidence of causal connection were temporal proximity, ‘‘we might be inclined to affirm the grant of summary judgment based on the weakness of [the plaintiff’s] case’’
• finding that the plaintiff failed to plead the defendant’s personal involvement because the plaintiff offered no facts suggesting that the defendant “either knew or should have known of the events of which [the plaintiff] complain[ed]”
• dismissing claim against DOCS Commissioner because “[t]he bare fact that [he] occupies a high position in the New York prison hierarchy is insufficient to sustain [plaintiffs] claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).