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Gregg v. Pettit

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Jan 8, 2009
Civil Action No. 07-1544 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 8, 2009)

Summary

dismissing the complaint for failure to state a claim where the only specific allegations against a defendant "appear in the introductory portion of the complaint and simply set forth who [the defendant] is and where he is employed."

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Opinion

Civil Action No. 07-1544.

January 8, 2009


ORDER


AND NOW, this 8th day of January, 2009, after the plaintiff, Gerald Allen Gregg, filed an action in the above-captioned case, and after defendants filed various motions to dismiss, and after a Report and Recommendation was filed by the United States Magistrate Judge granting the parties until December 19, 2008, to file written objections thereto, and upon consideration of the objections filed by plaintiff, which the Court finds to be without merit, 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 defendants' motions to dismiss are GRANTED with respect to the federal law claims and most of the state law claims. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court declines to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law claims against Defendants Pelzer and Warco.

IT IS FINALLY ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 4(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, if the parties desire to appeal from this Order they must do so within thirty (30) days by filing a notice of appeal as provided in Rule 3, Fed.R.App.P.


Summaries of

Gregg v. Pettit

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Jan 8, 2009
Civil Action No. 07-1544 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 8, 2009)

dismissing the complaint for failure to state a claim where the only specific allegations against a defendant "appear in the introductory portion of the complaint and simply set forth who [the defendant] is and where he is employed."

Summary of this case from Diaz v. Rucker
Case details for

Gregg v. Pettit

Case Details

Full title:GERALD ALLEN GREGG, Plaintiff, v. JOHN C. PETTIT, former District Attorney…

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

Date published: Jan 8, 2009

Citations

Civil Action No. 07-1544 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 8, 2009)

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