Legal Opinion
William Leer Robert Larry Emerhiser v. Al Murphy Darrell Gardner Arvin Arave
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 4, 1988No. 87-3501PublishedCited by 1,725 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
A fellow prisoner stabbed Emehiser and Leer (inmates) at the Idaho State Correctional Institution (prison). The inmates brought suits in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages from various state employees in the Idaho Department of Corrections (prison officials) in their official and individual capacities. The inmates alleged that the prison officials’ failure in certain aspects of prison administration caused the fellow inmate to stab them and thereby deprived them of their fourteenth amendment right to due process and their eighth amendment…
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