Legal Opinion
Dwayne Rieco v. Moran
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 1, 2015No. 15-2529UnpublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION *
2Per curiam
Dwayne Rieco appeals from a District Court order granting Appellees’ motion to dismiss. Because this appeal presents no substantial question, we will summarily affirm.
Rieco is a Pennsylvania state prisoner housed at SCI-Pittsburgh. He brought a § 1983 action against the Appellees for their role in an incident involving alleged food tampering. He asserts that on February 15, 2014, Appellees Moran, Smith, and Guskiewicz gave him a broken food tray containing a fruit cup contaminated with urine and a tofu burger containing a “hot and spicy substance.” (D.C. dkt. #5). Rieco asserts that…
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