United States v. Molzahn

How courts have described this case

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• holding Section 1983 action not barred where challenge is to conditions of confinement, rather than fact or duration
• holding “no such showing of extreme injury is required when the claim is that prison officials used excessive force”
• noting that, even when a prison official acts maliciously or sadistically, “not every push or shove . . . violates a prisoner’s constitutional rights” (internal citation, alteration, and quotation marks omitted)
• stating that not every push or shove violates a prisoner’s constitutional rights
• explaining that “[t]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not require 22 that a district court dismiss unknown defendants simply because the plaintiff is unaware of the 23 identity of those defendants at the time of the filing of the complaint.”
• explaining that “[t]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not require 19 that a district court dismiss unknown defendants simply because the plaintiff is unaware of the 20 identity of those defendants at the time of the filing of the complaint.”

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