United States Eighth Circuit

In a civil rights suit alleging that defendant-warden was deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk that guards would impose cruel and unusual punishment on plaintiff, a judgment against the warden is reversed where the record did not establish that he ever had the requisite knowledge or drew the necessary inferences to support a claim of deliberate indifference.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2007
• Published 06/20/2007

Judges

• RILEY, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, RILEY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who represented the appellant was Renae Ford Hudson, Assistant Attorney General, Little Rock, AR, Christine Ann Boozer, AAG, of Little Rock, also appeared on appellant's brief.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel who represented the appellee was Dawn D. Bicker, of Little Rock, AR.