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Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of BOP Failure to Protect Suit
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 1
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of a failure to protect suit filed by a federal prisoner who claimed that he was attacked by a guard for participating in a prison investigation.
Filed under:
Classification,
Transfers,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Failure to Protect (General),
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Injunctions.
Location:
Georgia.
“John Doe” sued Harley Lappin, then the Director of the Bureau of ...
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