United States Sixth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-warden is reversed in this section 1983 suit arising from an attack on a transsexual inmate by a maximum-security prisoner; plaintiff has raised an issue of fact as to the warden's knowledge of a risk to her safety because of her status as a vulnerable inmate and because of her attacker's status as a predatory inmate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2004
• Published 03/16/2004

Judges

• Before RYAN, MOORE, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alphonse A. Gerhardstein (argued and briefed), Jennifer L. Branch (briefed), Laufman & Gerhardstein, Cincinnati, OH, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elise W. Porter (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, Columbus, OH, for Appellee.