Torres v. Mazzuca

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• holding that prisoners do not have a due process right to an investigation of grievances
• holding that the plaintiff “does not have a protected liberty interest in having his grievances investigated at the level of thoroughness that he desires, and therefore he [cannot] assert a due process claim as to such failures”
• dismissing plaintiff’s §1983 claim because the “correction[] officers’ failure to properly address [the plaintiff’s] grievance by conducting a thorough investigation to his satisfaction does not create a cause of action”
• Prisoners do not have a due process right to a thorough Even assuming plaintiff's request is broader and investigation of grievances.
• Prisoners do not have a due process right to a thorough Even assuming plaintiff's request is broader and investigation of grievances.
• “Prison grievance procedures do not confer any substantive right upon an inmate requiring the procedural protections envisioned by the Fourteenth Amendment.”

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