Legal Opinion
Estate of Jeffrey Ford v. Ramirez-Palmer
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 23, 2002No. 01-15769PublishedCited by 192 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge RYMER; Partial Dissent by Judge CANBY.
RYMER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises the question of whether, after Saucier v. Katz, 583 U.S. 194, 121 S.Ct. 2151, 150 L.Ed.2d 272 (2001), qualified immunity may be denied in an Eighth Amendment case solely because there is triable issue of fact as to whether a prison official was deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s safety.
Jeffrey Ford, an inmate at the California Medical Facility-Vaeaville (CMF), was killed by his cellmate James Diesso while they were housed in the CMF Psychiatric Administrative Segregation Unit (PAS). Ford’s…
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