Green v. Doss

Filing 43

MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by District Judge Henry E. Hudson on 01/30/2020. Copy mailed to Plaintiff. (walk, )

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

JAN3 I 2020

Richmond Division

CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
RICHMOND. VA

ANTHONY M. GREEN, SR.,

Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 3:17CV574-HEH

TIMOTHY DOSS, et al.
Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

(Granting Motion for Summary Judgment)

Anthony M. Green, Sr., a Virginia inmate proceeding5e, filed this 42 U.S.C.

§ 1983 action. The action proceeds on Green's Particularized Complaint ("Complaint,"
ECF No. 18), in which Green claims that his constitutional rights were violated because

he was not permitted to marry during his incarceration at the Middle Peninsula Regional
Security Center ("MPRSC"). The following claim remains before the Court:
Claim One: Superintendent Timothy Doss ("Superintendent Doss")
violated Green's right to due process guaranteed by the

Fourteenth Amendment' by denying Green's requests to
marry.

Green seeks monetary damages. (Compl. 3.) The matter is before the Court on
Superintendent Doss's Motion for Summary Judgment. (ECF No. 39.) Green has
responded. (ECF No. 41.) For the reasons stated below, the Court will grant the Motion

for Summary Judgment and dismiss the action because Green failed to exhaust his
administrative remedies.

' "No State shall... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, withoutdue process of
law...." U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1.