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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION

WILLIAM GEOFFERY DOBBINS, )

)

Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

v. ) 2:08cv581-MHT

) (WO)

J.C. GILES, et al., )

) 

Defendants. )

OPINION

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff William

Geoffery Dobbins, a former state inmate, filed this

lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of actions

taken against him by defendants J.C. Giles, Lewis Hulett,

Antonio McClain, Dorothy Starks, Robert Bryant, Richard

Allen, John Peasant, Nettie Burks, and Correctional

Medical Services. This lawsuit is now before the court

on the recommendation of the United states Magistrate

Judge that the defendants’ motion for summary judgment

should be granted in all respects, except as to Dobbins’s

excessive-force claim against Hulett in his individual

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capacity, which, according to the magistrate judge,

should go to trial. There are no objections to the

recommendation. After an independent and de novo review

of the record, the court concludes that the magistrate

judge’s recommendation should be adopted.

An appropriate judgment will be entered.

DONE, this the 20th day of June, 2011.

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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