Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 8, 2004No. Nos. 03-10455, 03-10505 and 03-10722PublishedCited by 360 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
This is a § 1983 suit brought by a former Texas prisoner against fifteen prison officials. According to the plaintiffs version of events, which is disputed by the defendants, he suffered through a horrific eighteen-month period of incarceration during which the defendant prison officials failed to protect him from prison gangs who repeatedly raped him and bought and sold him as a sexual slave. His complaint asserted violations of the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause. The district court denied the defendants’ motions for judgment on the pleadings and for…
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