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Timestamp: 2019-10-16 22:55:13
Document Index: 586452995

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§1983']

FindACase™ | Woodall v. Budish
Woodall v. Budish
RONNIE WOODALL, Jr., Pro Se, Plaintiff
SOLOMON OLIVER, JR., UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
Pro Se Plaintiff Ronnie Woodall, Jr., a detainee in the Cuyahoga County Jail, has filed an in forma pauperis civil rights Complaint in this matter seeking damages and other relief against multiple Cuyahoga County officials and employees, including Armond Budish, Ken Mills, Eric Ivey, Emily McNeeley, Douglas Dykes, and Clifford Pickney. (Doc. No. 1.) In his Complaint, Plaintiff objects to numerous alleged conditions in the Jail, contending they subject him to cruel and unusual punishment. He complains he is not being provided adequate medical care and that numerous other inhumane conditions generally exist in the Jail, including unsanitary food trays, black mold, and asbestos. In addition, he complains there is no law library and that inmates have inadequate access to large muscle recreation, lawyers, and family due to “red zoning.” (Id. at 3-4.)
The Prison Litigation Reform Act, Pub. L. No. 103-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996), requires a district court to dismiss before service any prisoner action seeking redress from “a governmental entity or officer or employee of a governmental entity” if the complaint is frivolous or malicious, fails to state a claim on which relief can be granted, or seeks monetary relief from a defendant immune from such relief. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. To survive a dismissal for failure to state a claim under § 1915A, “a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.” Hill v. Lappin, 630 F.3d 468, 470-71 (6th Cir. 2010) (holding that the dismissal standard articulated in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009) and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) governs dismissals under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A).
Upon review, the court finds the Plaintiff's Complaint must be dismissed.
The Plaintiff does not set forth allegations specifically connecting any defendant to the unconstitutional conditions or misconduct he alleges, and it is well established that supervisory officials cannot be liable for constitutional violations of subordinates under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 solely on the basis of respondeat superior. A plaintiff cannot establish the individual liability of any defendant for constitutional violations absent allegations showing that each defendant was personally involved in the conduct which forms the basis of his claims. “Because vicarious liability is inapplicable to . . . § 1983 suits, a plaintiff must plead that each Government-official defendant, through the official's own individual actions, has violated the Constitution.” Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 676. Accordingly, where, as here, individuals are merely named as defendants in a civil rights action without supporting allegations of specific conduct in the body of the complaint, the complaint is subject to dismissal even under the liberal construction afforded to pro se plaintiffs. See Gilmore v. Corr. Corp. of Am., 92 Fed.Appx. 188, 190 (6th Cir. 2004) (“Merely listing names in the caption of the complaint and alleging constitutional violations in the body of the complaint is not enough to sustain recovery under §1983"); Frazier v. Michigan, 41 Fed.Appx. 762, 764 (6th Cir. 2002) (affirming dismissal of complaint that did not allege with any degree of specificity which of the named defendants were personally involved in or responsible for each alleged violation of federal rights).