Legal Opinion
McLaurin v. Prater
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 25, 1994No. Nos. 93-3812, 93-3947PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Prater appeals the district court’s determination that he violated McLaurin’s Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. McLaurin cross-appeals the district court’s decision declining to rule on his various state-law claims. We affirm the judgment in favor of McLaurin and remand for further proceedings relative to the state-law claims.
I. BACKGROUND
The district court’s factual findings, which are not contested by either party, may be summarized thusly: Prater, a security officer at the Tucker Maximum Security Unit of the Arkansas…
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