Rivera v. Schultz

ORDER

Natanael Rivera, a Wisconsin prisoner, sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that four guards at the Green Bay Correctional Institution violated his Eighth Amendment rights when they conducted a pat-down search during which his pants fell to the ground. The suit proceeded to trial, but the district court concluded that the jury could not reasonably find from Rivera’s evidence that the defendants had committed a constitutional violation and granted them judgment as a matter of law. Rivera, who represented himself throughout the case, challenges that decision as well as the denials of his…