United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from a judgment of the district denying defendants' motion for partial summary judgment in a Section 1983 action for overdetention, judgment is reversed where the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity because there is no clearly established duty on a prison official to review a prisoner’s original court records beyond those in his institutional file to address the prisoner’s unsupported assertion that he was being overdetained.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2011
• Published 12/14/2011

Judges

• O’SCANNLAIN

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel