Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Moya
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 5, 2002No. 00-50524PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Per curiam
After being cut with a knife by a prison guard, Fred Townsend (“Townsend”), an inmate of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”), filed a § 1983 suit against a guard, a prison warden, and the executive director of the TDCJ.1 The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants, and Townsend appeals. Because there is no genuine issue of material fact concerning whether the prison guard acted under color of state law, we AFFIRM.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Townsend was an inmate and a state-approved trustee and worked in the prison as a “kennelman” caring for the guards’…
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