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· 12/1/1995

Christopher Lee Prosser v. Davis L. Ross, Co I

Citations

  • 70 F.3d 1005
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 33464

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that prison guards have “no constitutional duty to intervene in the armed assault of one inmate upon another when intervention would place the guards in danger of physical harm”
  • finding no deliberate indifference where prison guard ran to get help immediately after inmate threw first punch at plaintiff
  • finding no deliberate indifference where prison guard ran to get help immediately after inmate threw first punch at plaintiff
  • finding no deliberate indifference where prison guard ran to get help immediately after inmate threw first punch at plaintiff
  • finding no deliberate indifference when prison guard ran to get help immediately after inmate threw first punch at plaintiff
  • \We have held that a party cannot avoid summary judgment by contradicting his own earlier testimony.\

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Judges: Wollman, Gibson, Arnold

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