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No Interlocutory Appeal on Supervisory Liability When Guard Stabs Prisoner
Loaded on July 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1999, page 16
The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a warden's interlocutory appeal disputing material facts in the case. The court also held that letters from a prisoner alerting supervisory prison officials to risks or dangers are sufficient to impose liability on those officials ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Failure to Protect (General),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Summary Judgment,
Appeals,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Louisiana.
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