Legal Opinion
Hope v. Pelzer
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 2002No. 01-309PublishedCited by 4,730 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit concluded that petitioner Larry Hope, a former prison inmate at the Limestone Prison in Alabama, was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment when prison guards twice handcuffed him to a hitching post to sanction him for disruptive conduct. Because that conclusion was not supported by earlier cases with “materially similar” facts, the court held that the respondents were entitled to qualified immunity, and therefore affirmed summary judgment in their favor. We granted cer-tiorari to determine whether the Court of Appeals’ qualified immunity…
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