United States Eleventh Circuit

Plaintiff's suit, alleging that jail administrators violated his constitutional rights in failing to prevent an inmate-on-inmate attack, is dismissed where, as a matter of law, the conditions at the jail failed to pose the substantial risk of serious harm necessary for a violation of the federal Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2005
• Published 02/24/2005

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dana K. Maine, Theodore Freeman, Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants., Thomas A. Nash, Jr., Inglesby, Falligant, Horne, Courington & Nash, Brent J. Savage, C. Dorian Britt, Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.