Legal Opinion
Ortiz v. Jordan
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 24, 2011No. 09-737PublishedCited by 432 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
We address in this case a procedural issue arising in a civil rights action brought under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 by Michelle Ortiz, a former inmate at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. Plaintiff below, petitioner here, Ortiz filed a complaint in federal court stating key facts on which she based claims for damages against superintending prison officers. On two consecutive nights during her one-year incarceration, Ortiz stated, she was sexually assaulted by a corrections officer. Although she promptly reported the first incident, she fur*183ther alleged, prison authorities took no measures to protect…
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