Brown v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Full title: ABDUL BROWN, Plaintiff, v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al.…

Court: United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania

Date published: Jan 12, 2007

Civil Action No. 04-1361 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 12, 2007)

Opinion

Civil Action No. 04-1361.

January 12, 2007

ORDER

GARY LANCASTER, District Judge

AND NOW, this 12^th day of January 2007, after the plaintiff filed a civil rights complaint in the above-captioned case, and after motions for summary judgment were submitted by the plaintiff and by the remaining defendants in this case, and after a Report and Recommendation was issued by the United States Magistrate Judge (Document No. 92), and the plaintiff was accorded a time period to file written objections thereto (Document No. 99), and upon consideration of the objections filed by the plaintiff (Document Nos. 102-104), and upon independent review of the pleadings, and the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, which is adopted as the opinion of this Court,

IT IS ORDERED that the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment (Document No. 72) is denied;

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the motion for summary judgment submitted by remaining defendants Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Jeffrey A. Beard, William Stickman, Lance Couturier, Fred Maue, Donald Williamson, Ronald Blandford, Neal Mechling, Louis Folino and Counselor Ivan (Document No. 83) is granted, and judgment is entered accordingly.

IT IS ALSO ORDERED that pursuant to Rule 4(a)(1) of the F.R.App.P., if the plaintiff desires to appeal from this Order, he must do so within thirty (30) days by filing a notice of appeal as provided by Rule 3 F.R.App.P.