Douglas v. Clarke et al

Filing 29

MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by District Judge John A. Gibney, Jr on 02/27/2015. (jsmi, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Richmond Division

LAMONT O. DOUGLAS,

Plaintiff,
V.

Civil Action No. 3:13CV028

HAROLD CLARKE, et aL,
Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Lamont O. Douglas, a Virginia inmate proceeding pro se and informa pauperis, filed this

civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983* arguing that Defendants^ violated his First^ and Fourteenth"*
Amendment rights. In his Complaint (ECF No. 1), Douglas argues entitlement to relief on the
following grounds:

Claim One:

Defendants violated his right to due process when Defendants refused to
permit him to possess prayer oil in segregation.

' That statute provides, in pertinent part:
Every person who, under color of any statute ... of any State ... subjects,
or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within
the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities
secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an
action at law....

42 U.S.C. § 1983.

^ Defendants are Harold Clarke, Eddie Pearson, J. Boone, and R. Wallace
("Defendants").

^"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof...U.S. Const, amend. I.

^"No State shall... deprive any person oflife, liberty, orproperty, without due process
of law

" U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1.