United States First Circuit
CALDERON-ORTIZ v. LABOY-ALVARADO, 01-2469
A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 complaint sufficiently pled a due process claim, based on a detention facility's deliberate indifference in failing to adequately protect a detainee from a sexual assault.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/20/2002
- Published 08/20/2002
Judges
- BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- José R. Olmo-Rodríguez for appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Camelia Fernández-Romeu, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Roberto J. Sánchez-Ramos, Solicitor General, and Vanessa Lugo-Flores, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief for appellees.