REID-DOUGLAS et al v. WETZEL et al

Filing 55

ORDER indicating that the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation 53 is adopted as the opinion of this Court; that the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss 41 , is granted; that Plaintiff Daliyl Muhammad's Motion to Vacate Order [37 ] and Plaintiff Steven Reid-Douglas's Motions for an Order Enjoining Defendants to Allow Co-Plaintiff Scott to Visit Plaintiff Reid-Douglas at SCI-Greene for the Purpose of this Litigation ( 46 and 52 , are denied as moot; that, pursuant to R ule 4(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, if any party wishes to appeal from this Order a notice of appeal, as provided in Fed. R. App. P. 3, must be filed with the Clerk of Court, United States District Court, at 700 Grant Street, Room 3110, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, within thirty (30) days. Signed by Judge Nora Barry Fischer on 6/23/15. (jg)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

STEVEN REID-DOUGLAS; THOMAS
SCOTT; DALIYL MUHAMMAD,
Plaintiffs,

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vs.
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JOHN WETZEL Secretary of Corrections )
of the Pennsylvania Department of
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Corrections; JAMES BARNACLE
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Director of the Office of Special
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Investigation and Intelligence; DAVID
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PITKINS Deputy Secretary of the Western )
Region of Pennsylvania’s Department of
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Corrections; ERIN BROWN Chief of
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Background Investigations of the
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Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; )
JOANNE TORMA Director of the Office of )
Population Management of the PA DOC; )
VICTOR MIRARCHI Chief of Security
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within DOC; DIANA WOODSIDE
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Director of Policy and grants for the PA
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DOC; SHAWN KEPHART Director of the )
Bureau of Treatment Services of the PA
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DOC; ROBIN LEWIS Deputy Chief
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Counsel for Hearings and Appeals of the PA)
DOC; LORRINDA WINFIELD Deputy
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Superintendent for Facilities Management )
At SCI Greene; CAPT TANNER Security )
Captain; WALLACE LEGGETT Major of )
Unit Management at SCI Greene; CRAIG )
HAYWOOD Major of Unit Management at )
SCI Greene; Officer LECHNER;
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SCI-GREENE SECURITY DEPARTMENT;)
LOUIS FOLINO Superintendent of SCI
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Greene; G. BAKER; CO T. JOHNSON;
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COL RAMBLER; COL. HARKLEROAD; )
C.O. COY,
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Defendants. )

Civil Action No. 15-533
Judge Nora Barry Fischer/
Chief Magistrate Judge Maureen P. Kelly

Re: ECF Nos 37, 41, 46 and 52

ORDER
AND NOW, this 22nd day of June, 2015, after Plaintiffs Steven Reid-Douglas, Thomas
Scott and Daliyl Muhammad filed an action in the above-captioned case, and after a Motion to
Dismiss was filed by Defendants, and after a Report and Recommendation was filed by the
United States Magistrate Judge giving the parties until June 15, 2015 to file written objections
thereto, and no Objections having been filed, and upon independent review of the record, and
upon consideration of the Magistrate Judge=s Report and Recommendation, which is adopted as
the opinion of this Court,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion to Dismiss, ECF No. 41, is granted.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff Daliyl Muhammad’s Motion to Vacate Order,
ECF No. 37, and Plaintiff Steven Reid-Douglas’s Motions for an Order Enjoining Defendants to
Allow Co-Plaintiff Scott to Visit Plaintiff Reid-Douglas at SCI-Greene for the Purpose of this
Litigation, ECF Nos. 46 and 52, are denied as moot.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 4(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of
Appellate Procedure, if any party wishes to appeal from this Order a notice of appeal, as
provided in Fed. R. App. P. 3, must be filed with the Clerk of Court, United States District Court,
at 700 Grant Street, Room 3110, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, within thirty (30) days.
By the Court:

/s/ Judge Nora Barry Fischer
United States District Judge
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cc:

Honorable Maureen P. Kelly
Chief United States Magistrate Judge
Steven Reid-Douglas
JH-8196
SCI Greene
175 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA 15370
Thomas Scott
KD-9349
SCI Greene
175 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA 15370
Daliyl Muhammad
GB-0883
SCI Fayette
Special Mail-Open Only in Presence of Inmate
P.O. Box 999
LaBelle, PA 15450-0999
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