Legal Opinion
Peate, Joey A. v. McCann, Steve
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 2002No. 00-2937PublishedCited by 186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Joey Peate is serving a sentence at the Miami Correctional Facility in Bunker Hill, Indiana. On July 2, 1999, while confined there, another inmate attacked Peate twice. Although Peate does not blame any prison officials for the first attack, he argues that Sergeant Steve McCann, a correctional officer, violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by facilitating and failing to break up the second attack with deliberate indifference to Peate’s safety. The district court, after permitting only limited discovery, granted McCann’s motion for summary…
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