Wright v. Goord

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the grabbing of prisoner did not constitute excessive force
• holding no rational juror could find retaliatory motive by a corrections officer where, inter alia, inmate’s grievance letter did not name 5 that officer and that officer was not a participant in the alleged misconduct
• explaining that a government official violates the Eighth Amendment where he applies force “maliciously and sadistically to cause harm” and where the conduct is “objectively harmful enough to establish a constitutional violation” (quotation marks omitted)
• finding that a pro se litigant who had objected only to certain portions of the Magistrate Judge’s R&R “waived his right to challenge . . . on appeal” a basis for dismissal to which he did not object
• dismissing retaliation claim against a corrections officer when only alleged basis for retaliation was complaint about a prior incident by another corrections officer
• dismissing retaliation claim against a corrections officer when the only alleged basis for retaliation was a complaint about a prior incident by another correctional officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).