Albert Anderson v. M. Kingsley

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Niemeyer wrote the opinion, in which Judge Traxler and Judge Wynn joined.

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

The question presented in this appeal is whether the district court properly instructed the jury on the definition of “deliberate indifference,” as required for proving that prison officials are liable under the Eighth Amendment for failing to protect an inmate from a fellow inmate’s assault.

After Albert Anderson was assaulted by a fellow inmate in Gloucester County Jail in Virginia, sustaining serious injury, he commenced this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983…