· 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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