Legal Opinion
The Estate of Marquette F. Cummings Jr. v. Warden Carter Davenport
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2018No. 17-13999PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
*937 This interlocutory appeal of the partial denial of Carter Davenport's motion to dismiss the amended complaint by the estate of Marquette F. Cummings Jr. requires us to decide whether Davenport, a prison warden, satisfied his threshold burden of establishing entitlement to qualified immunity. Cummings, a prisoner, was stabbed by a fellow inmate, was transported to a hospital, and died the next day. His estate filed a civil-rights complaint, see 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , that Davenport violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution by illegally…
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