Legal Opinion
Dale v. Poston
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 21, 2008No. 06-2847PublishedCited by 215 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Curtis Dale, a federal prisoner, filed this suit in 2002 against several prison employees claiming that they violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect him from an attack by another inmate. The case has gone back and forth with both Dale and the government going 2 for 4: a loss for Dale at the pleading stage, a win by Dale on appeal, a win by Dale before a jury on a threshold issue, and finally a loss for Dale on summary judgment. The last loss brings the case before us a second time.
Dale filed his complaint in the district court in 2002, naming Officer Pamela…
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