No. 19-5207

Admassu Regassa v. Emily Cimino, et al.

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-07-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ftca ftca-claim judicial-review prison-conditions pro-se-prisoner
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw FirstAmendment DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court erroneously dismissed the petitioner's Second Amended Complaint and the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the dismissal

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . , Petitioner, Admassu Regassa, a DC inmate and pro se indigent prisoner currently confined in a federal facility at FCC Petersburg, Virginia, i initiated his combined civil rights (Bivens) and FTCA action in regards to the conditions of his confinement and deprivation of his multiple Constitutional rights (his First, Pifth, Eighth, and Fourteeenth . , "Amendment rights) by respondents, several defendant prison officials at his previous institution (USP Marion, Illinois) who acted under the ‘ color of federal law. In his Second Amended Complaint (Doc. 29), © : Regassa asserted clear and legitimate and viable [actionable] . : — Constitutional claims against the Bivens Defendants and clear and . legitimate and viable [actionable] FTCA claims against the United Ss States. However, the United States District Court for the Southern . : District of Illinois dismissed Regassa's Second Amended. Complaint : , : (Doc. 29) in ‘its entirety with, prejudice for failure to state a claim : 3 upon which relief may be granted, and on appeal, the United States — o court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the district court's erroneous decisions and Order and final judgment. (Docs. 31 & 32). With this general backdrop of information, should the. United States Supreme Court intervene in this matter and exercise its supervisory role and review the lower courts! decisions=ma grant . , Regassa's petition for a writ, of certiorai because . : _ N) as .. the Highest. Court of the land; the United States Supreme Court , and jurisdiction ang , judicial authority and Constitutional prerogatives to uphold and to . protect, among other things, basic human rights and dignity and . fundamental Constitutional rights of an. indigent pro se prisoner . ae ; [Regassa]? . \ ¥ ot QUESTION(S) PRESENTED: (CONTINUED) : B) the district court erroneously dismissed Regassa's Second Amended Complaint (Doc 29) in its entirety with prejudice for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit improperly affirmed the district court's erroneous decisions and Order and final judgment (Docs. 31 & 32)? C) there are several compelleing reasons and questions of exceptional importance and the decisions of the district court and the panel conflict with the decisions of (i) the United States Supreme Court (ii) the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (iii) other United States Courts of Appeals that addressed these issues? iii. : t ‘s ,

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-05
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 19, 2019)

Attorneys

Admassu Regassa
Admassu Regassa — Petitioner
Admassu Regassa — Petitioner
UNITED STATES
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent