Legal Opinion
Jabbar v. Fischer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 21, 2012No. Docket 11-3765PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff-appellant Muhammad Abdul Jabbar, a state inmate proceeding pro se, alleges that defendants-appellees violated his constitutional rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by transporting him on a bus without a seatbelt. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jones, J.) dismissed the action. Jabbar appeals. We hold that the failure of prison officials to provide seatbelts to prison inmates does not, standing alone, violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments. Accordingly, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
The following facts are drawn from Jabbar’s…
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