Legal Opinion
Robert A. Berdella v. Paul K. Delo Thelma Branson and Frank J. Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1992No. 91-2823PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
On October 17, 1989, Robert A. Berdella, then, an inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) in Missouri, 1 filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint against Paul Delo, the superintendent of the PCC, Thelma Bran-son, the mail room clerk at the PCC, and Frank J. Murphy, the court-appointed trustee of Berdella’s estate. On July 11, 1990, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of Murphy based on the rule of res judicata. Nearly a year later, on June 26, 1991, the court granted summary judgment in favor of Delo and Branson based, in part, on qualified immunity.…
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