Love v. Coughlin, 82-2338
| Decision Date | 22 April 1983 |
| Docket Number | No. 82-2338,82-2338 |
| Parties | John LOVE, Jr., Appellant, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Everett W. Jones, Superintendent of the Great Meadow Correctional Facility, J. Whitney, J. Greene, D. Mitchell, Correction Officers, Great Meadow Correctional Facility, and John Doe, Sergeant, Great Meadow Correctional Facility, Appellees. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
John Love, Jr., appellant pro se.
Before OAKES, PIERCE and PECK, ** Circuit Judges.
John Love, Jr., an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, concerning the loss of two out of three of his duffel bags during a transfer from D-block to E-block. The bags were said to contain various items of clothing and food and other personal belongings, as well as legal documents and communications pertaining to four civil and two criminal law suits either pending or in process. He seeks compensatory and punitive damages, as well as an injunction against "negligent conduct" on the part of certain correctional officers, the Superintendent of Great Meadow and the Commissioner of the State Department of Correctional Services in not safeguarding inmate property in a proper manner and exposing it to theft or loss. Following the magistrate's report recommending dismissal of the complaint under Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 543-44, 101 S.Ct. 1908, 1916-17, 68 L.Ed.2d 420 (1981), Love filed objections to the magistrate's recommendations, alleging interference with his access to the courts, and reemphasizing the fact that the problem of securing inmates' property against theft or loss is a "recurring" one. He appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Howard G. Munson, Chief Judge, approving the magistrate's report and dismissing the complaint without service of process upon the named defendants.
Although we have repeatedly cautioned the district courts against sua sponte dismissal of prison inmates' civil rights complaints, e.g., Bayron v. Trudeau, 702 F.2d 43 (2d Cir.1983), dismissal is warranted when statute or controlling precedent clearly forecloses the pleading, liberally construed. Cameron v. Fogarty, 705 F.2d 676, 678 (2d Cir.1983). Parratt, supra, held that where a prison inmate loses personal...
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