United States Eleventh Circuit

An inmate's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when prison guards handcuffed him to a hitching post on two occasions, one of which lasted for seven hours without regular water or bathroom breaks, but guards are entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2001
• Published 02/02/2001

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and VINING, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Craig Thomas Jones,Craig T. Jones, PC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kim Tobias Thomas, Andrew Weldon Redd, Ellen R. Leonard, Alabama Dept. of Corrections, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.