Where an inmate, who was attacked by a fellow inmate on his first day in prison and by another inmate two days later, brought a failure-to-protect action against a deputy warden, the judgment for the defendant is affirmed because the ...

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Where an inmate challenged the dismissal of his failure-to-protect claim, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying leave to amend the complaint because the proposed amendments added new defendants and claims, and the judgment is affirmed because ...

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Plaintiff, an inmate, appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant, a detention center official, on plaintiff’s failure-to-protect claim. Where plaintiff did not submit evidence showing he suffered injury due to official policy or custom, his official-capacity failure-to-protect ...

Tagged with: 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights Failure To Protect Official Capacity

Patterson v. Kelley (MLW No. 72098/Case No. 16-3891 – 20 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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Walker v. Kane (MLW No. 71471/Case No. 17-1345 – 13 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Benton, J.)

Tagged with: civil rights Cross Examination Failure To Protect Inmate Rape