Legal Opinion
Toran Peterson v. Richard Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 12, 2013No. 11-1845PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBatchelder, C.J., joined by Suhrheinrich, J„
DONALD, J. (pp. 918-20), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge.
Appellant Toran Peterson is a prisoner in Michigan’s Ionia Correctional Facility, a maximum-security penitentiary. He appeals, inter alia, the district court’s grant *908of summary judgment in favor of the defendants on his claim that Appellees Richard Johnson and Larry Lindy, officers of the Michigan Department of Corrections, violated his Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment. His appeal turns on a single question: Where a disputed issue of fact is resolved at a…
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