United States Eighth Circuit

In an action claiming that defendant-officers failed to protect plaintiff from an assault by a fellow prisoner, and others failed to properly train and supervise the officers responsible for her safety, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where a factfinder could conclude that the situation in which plaintiff was placed demonstrated deliberate indifference to a substantial risk to her safety.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2010
• Published 04/22/2010

Judges

• BEAM, Circuit Judge., Before MELLOY, BEAM, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, Columbus, MS, argued, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter A. Lee, Baird, Lightner, Millsap & Harpool, P.C., Springfield, MO, argued (M. Douglas Harpool, on the brief), for appellees.