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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

JANET CHEREE TAYLOR, )

)

 Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

 v. ) 2:13cv279-MHT

) (WO)

LT. W. MILLER and SGT. J. 

WEEKS,

)

)

)

 Defendants. )

 

OPINION

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff, a former 

state inmate, filed this lawsuit complaining that the 

defendants, both correctional officers, violated her 

Eighth Amendment right to be free of cruel and unusual 

punishment. She alleges that, during a prison 

shakedown, one of the defendants slapped her across the 

face and poked her in the forehead, causing her head to 

bang against the wall, in order to stop her from crying 

very hard in response to the officers’ confiscation of,

and refusal to return, her pictures of her recently 

deceased father and her copy of his obituary. She also 

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alleges that, when she complained to him, the other 

defendant was verbally abusive and made racist remarks 

towards her. The defendants deny any wrongdoing.

This lawsuit is now before the court on the 

recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge 

that plaintiff’s case be dismissed for failure to 

prosecute. Plaintiff, who has been released from 

prison since filing suit and whose copy of the 

recommendation was returned by the post office as 

undeliverable, filed 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. 

Despite the serious allegations in this case, it is 

clear that plaintiff has abandoned it.

An appropriate judgment will be entered.

DONE, this the 15th day of October, 2014.

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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