Case Name: Wael ALBUDAIRY, Appellant v. C.O. DEITER, Correctional Officer at SCI-Dallas; Sgt. Higgins, Property Sergeant at SCI-Dallas; Lt. Miller, Security Lieutenant at SCI-Dallas
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-12-05
Citations: 307 F. App'x 604
Docket Number: No. 08-2761
Parties: Wael ALBUDAIRY, Appellant v. C.O. DEITER, Correctional Officer at SCI-Dallas; Sgt. Higgins, Property Sergeant at SCI-Dallas; Lt. Miller, Security Lieutenant at SCI-Dallas.
Judges: Before: BARRY, AMBRO and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 307
Pages: 604–606

Head Matter:
Wael ALBUDAIRY, Appellant v. C.O. DEITER, Correctional Officer at SCI-Dallas; Sgt. Higgins, Property Sergeant at SCI-Dallas; Lt. Miller, Security Lieutenant at SCI-Dallas.
No. 08-2761.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted for Possible Dismissal Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) or Summary Action Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6 Nov. 21, 2008.
Opinion Filed: Dec. 5, 2008.
Wael Abas Albudairy, Dallas, PA, pro se.
Howard G. Hopkirk, Esq., Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, for C.O. Deiter, Correctional Officer at SCI-Dallas; Sgt. Higgins, Property Sergeant at SCI-Dallas; Lt. Miller, Security Lieutenant at SCI-Dallas.
Before: BARRY, AMBRO and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Wael Albudairy, a state prisoner at SCI-Dallas, filed this pro se action in the Middle District of Pennsylvania against three prison officers ("Appellees"), alleging violations of his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Appellees moved to dis miss Albudairy's amended complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). On May 16, 2008, the District Court adopted the report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge Malachy E. Mannion and granted Appellees' motion to dismiss. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm.
Albudairy makes two claims in his amended complaint. The first claim is that Appellee C.O. Deiter violated his Eighth Amendment rights by forcing Albudairy to share a cell with a "self proclaimed Salafi Muslim" because "Salafi Muslims hate me and my people." On this claim, Albudairy requests "Ten Million ($10,000,000) dollars to prevent this kind of incident from ever happening again." The second claim is that Appellees Sgt. Higgins and Lt. Miller violated his Eighth Amendment rights by removing and failing to return his personal property following Albudairy's move to a different cell. For this claim Albudairy seeks three hundred dollars in compensation.
The Magistrate Judge correctly analyzed Albudairy's first Eighth Amendment claim under the Supreme Court's standard for "deliberate indifference." See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837-39, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994) (no Eighth Amendment liability for prison officials unless they know of and disregard an excessive risk to an inmate's health or safety). We agree with the Magistrate Judge that Albudairy's decision to assault his new cell-mate fatally undercuts his claim that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by virtue of the cell assignment. Indeed, while the Eighth Amendment confers a duty upon prison officials "to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners," id. at 833, 114 S.Ct. 1970, it by no means enables or shields unprovoked acts of aggression.
As for Albudairy's second claim regarding his missing personal property, the Magistrate Judge correctly found that the claim was foreclosed by the Supreme Court's decision in Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 104 S.Ct. 3194, 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984). There, the Court held that "an unauthorized intentional deprivation of property by a state employee does not constitute a violation of the procedural requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if a meaningful postdeprivation remedy for the loss is available." Id. at 533, 104 S.Ct. 3194. In his original complaint, Albudairy admits that there is a grievance procedure available at his place of incarceration, but that he has failed to use it regarding the claims asserted. In addition, Albudairy does not suggest that state and common-law remedies available to redress the alleged confiscation of personal property are somehow inadequate. See id. at 530, 535, 104 S.Ct. 3194. Thus, it cannot be said that Albudairy has no "meaningful postdeprivation remedies" in lieu of § 1983.
Finally, the District Court's failure to notify Albudairy of his ability to amend his already amended complaint following the Appellees' motion to dismiss does not change the result in this case. "When a plaintiff does not seek leave to amend a deficient complaint after a defendant moves to dismiss it, the coui*t must inform the plaintiff that he has leave to amend within a set period of time, unless amendment would be inequitable or futile." Grayson v. Mayview State Hosp., 293 F.3d 103, 108 (3d Cir.2002) (emphasis in origi nal). Based on the content of Albudairy's substantive filings in the District Court, as well as the thorough order from the Magistrate Judge outlining the requirements for Albudairy's first amended complaint, we find that any subsequent notification per Grayson regarding amendment would have been an exercise in futility. Therefore, because we agree with the District Court that Albudairy's amended complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, we affirm its order granting Appellees' motion to dismiss under Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6).
. The District Court also reviewed a Fourteenth Amendment claim involving Albudairy's placement in restricted prison housing. We do not find such a claim alleged in any of Albudairy's letters or substantive filings with the District Court, and therefore do not address its merits in this opinion.