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No Jurisdiction for Some Qualified Immunity Appeals
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 17
The court of appeals for the fourth circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear an appeal by prison officials accused of being deliberately indifferent to the safety of a prisoner where they stood by while he was attacked and stabbed by a drunken prisoner. The defendants had sought summary ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Eighth Amendment,
Appeals,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Virginia.
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