United States Ninth Circuit

Corrections officers are entitled to qualified immunity where it would not have been clear to a reasonable officer, knowing what each knew, that their conduct posed such a substantial risk of serious harm to an inmate that it was unlawful under the Eighth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/11/2002
• Decided 08/23/2002
• Published 08/23/2002

Judges

• Before: CANBY and RYMER, Circuit Judges, and BERTELSMAN, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Scott Smith,Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Stan Casper, Casper, Meadows & Schwartz, Walnut Creek, CA, and John Houston Scott, Prentice & Scott, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.