Where an inmate sought injunctive relief against prison officials for allegedly refusing to provide him with a daily serving of meat in accordance with his Sunni Muslim religious beliefs, the inmate failed to exhaust his administrative remedies as required by ...

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Where an inmate brought a civil-rights action against health care providers, the district court properly granted summary judgment to the defendants. Judgment is affirmed. Hamm v. Liggett (MLW No. 73604/Case No. 18-2386 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th ...

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Where an inmate challenged the district court’s grant of his motion to quash his trial subpoenas, the inmate’s disclosure of the witnesses and his request for subpoenas complied with the trial management order, and the exclusion of the related evidence ...

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Where an inmate, who was attacked by a fellow inmate on his first day in prison and by another inmate two days later, brought a failure-to-protect action against a deputy warden, the judgment for the defendant is affirmed because the ...

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Where a Missouri inmate challenged the grant of summary judgment to prison officials on his claims brought under the First and Eighth Amendments, there was no reversible error, and the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to ...

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Where an inmate challenged the denial of relief for failure to exhaust her administrative remedies, the denial of relief was proper, but the petition should have been dismissed without prejudice. Judgment is affirmed as modified. Banks-Davis v. U.S. (MLW No. ...

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Where an inmate challenged the dismissal of his failure-to-protect claim, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying leave to amend the complaint because the proposed amendments added new defendants and claims, and the judgment is affirmed because ...

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Where an inmate challenged an adverse summary judgment on his claims that jail officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs, the judgment is affirmed because the inmate did not show deliberate indifference. Judgment is affirmed. Shelton v. McLeod ...

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Where an inmate challenged an adverse judgment in his jury trial regarding the prison’s mail policy, the district court did not abuse its discretion in submitting the issues to the jury, and the judgment is affirmed because the inmate failed ...

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Where an inmate challenged the dismissal of his pro se complaint, the judgment is affirmed because there was no basis for reversal. Judgment is affirmed. Williams v. Minnesota Department of Corrections (MLW No. 73185/Case No. 18-2037 – 2 pages) (U.S. ...

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Where an inmate, who suffered a hip injury after an assault by another inmate, argued that prison employees were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs, the district court did not abuse its discretion in failing to consider the inmate’s ...

Tagged with: Deliberate Indifference Hip Injury Inmate Action