United States Eighth Circuit

Prison guard, who saw two prisoners arguing over location of local town, is entitled to qualified immunity for failure to protect one prisoner from the other when the argument was hours before the assault and prisoners were acting in amicable manner after the argument.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2002
• Published 01/14/2002

Judges

• BEAM, Circuit Judge., Before McMILLIAN, BEAM, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ryan P. Blue, argued, Little Rock, AR, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles E. Halbert, argued, Helena, AR, (Louis A. Etoch, on the brief), for Appellees.