United States Seventh Circuit

In an inmate's action for Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment violations against a corrections officer, based on his facilitation of and failure to break up an attack by a fellow inmate, summary judgment in favor of the officer was improper where sufficient evidence showed that he acted with deliberate indifference in furnishing the attacker with a potential weapon.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/29/2001
• Decided 06/25/2002
• Published 06/25/2002

Judges

• DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nathaniel Cade, Jr. (argued), Gordon P. Giampietro, Michael Best & Friedrich, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Monika Prekopa Talbot (argued), Office of Atty. General, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.