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Case 1 :04-cv-00210-GIVIS Document 29 Filed 02/20/2008 Page 2 of 2 .
Case 1:04—cv—00210—Gl\/IS Document 27 Filed 02/11/2008 Page 1 ot 5 i
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
RICARDO A. CASTILLO, )
Plaintiff, )
v. ) Civ. Action No. 04-210-GMS
SUPERVISOR FRANK COSTAN and i
COUNSELOR VIDA DAWKINS, )
Defendants. i
MEMORANDUM
I. INTRODUCTION
The plaintiff, Ricardo A. Castillo ("Casti1lo"), a former inmate who was housed at the
Howard R. Young Correctional Institution ("HRYCI"), Wilmington, Delaware, tiled this civil
rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleges that the defendants, Supervisor Frank
Costan (“Costan") and Counselor Vida Dawkins ("Dawkins") violated his right to tree speech
and retaliatcd against him for exercising this right, pursuant to the First Amendment. Pending
before the court is the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint on that basis that Castillo
failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. (D.I. 24.) Castillo did not respond to the motion.
II. STANDARD OF REVIEW _
_ Rule 12(b)(6) permits a party to move to dismiss a complaint for failure to state a claim
upon which relief may be granted. Fed. R. Civ. P. l2(b)(6). The court must accept all factual
allegations in a complaint as true and take them in the light most favorable to plaintiff. Erickson
v. Pardus, —U.S.—, 127 S,Ct. 2197, 2200 (2007); Christopher v. Hcrrbury, 536 U.S. 403, 406
(2002). A complaint must contain "‘a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the
pleader is entitled to relief,’ in order to ‘give the defendant fair notice of what the . . . claim is

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