Legal Opinion
Lance Wood v. Tom Beauclair
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 4, 2012No. 10-35300PublishedCited by 219 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Lance Conway Wood is a state prisoner in Idaho. Wood allegedly engaged in a romantic, but not sexual, relationship with a female prison guard, Sandra de Martin. Wood alleges that both during and after the relationship, Martin perpetrated sexual acts on him without his consent. He filed a civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging constitutional violations of the First, Fourth, and Eighth Amendments.
The district court granted summary judgment to defendants on Wood’s Eighth Amendment claims finding that the romantic relationship…
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