Legal Opinion
Ronald Beal v. Brian Foster
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2015No. 14-2489PublishedCited by 266 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, an inmate of a Wisconsin state prison, filed suit under. 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the prison’s warden (Foster) and a prison guard (Schneider), alleging in his complaint that Schneider had inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on him. The district court dismissed the complaint at “screening,” 28 U.S.C. § 1915A — which is to say before any response by the defendants. The ground of the dismissal was failure to state a claim; the magistrate judge (presiding with the consent of the parties) stated that “standing alone, verbal harassment of an inmate does not…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Charles M. KEENAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frank HALL, Director Oregon Department of Corrections, Et Al., Defendants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
- Davis v. GoordCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
- Crawford v. CuomoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2015
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3Cited by266 opinions
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