United States First Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action in which plaintiff-inmates allege that defendants acted with deliberate indifference to a substantial risk that inmates would use padlocks issued to them by the prison to assault fellow inmates such as plaintiffs, is affirmed, where: 1) plaintiffs have failed to raise a triable issue of substantial risk of assault by padlock; and 2) the district court likewise correctly held that defendants were entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/07/2014
• Published 07/07/2014

Judges

• SOUTER

Court

• United States First Circuit

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