Brown v. Scott

OPINION AND ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION AND DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS AND FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

LAWSON, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Gary Brown, presently incarcerated at the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility, in Standish, Michigan, has filed a pro se complaint against the defendant, Ivan Scott, a resident unit manager at the St. Louis Correctional Facility in St. Louis, Michigan, alleging a deprivation of his constitutional rights under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment, via 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff contends that the defendant…