Ronald Robinson v. Ed Sweeny

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This odd and confused case underscores the pitfalls that await prisoners who file federal suits against corrections officers to enforce constitutional rights. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Attacked by a fellow prisoner while being transported back from a court hearing to his cell in an Illinois jail, Robinson, proceeding pro se, claims that guards and supervisory personnel were deliberately indifferent to his safety in failing to protect him from his assailant. After the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and so entered a final judgment dismissing…