Walker v. Horn

McKEE, Circuit Judge.

In this § 1983 action, Michael Tyrone Walker, a state prisoner, alleges that his rights under the First, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated when prison officials sought a state court order authorizing them to force-feed him after he went nine days without eating. The district court granted summary judgment to all of the defendants except Arthur Auxer, a prison official; and Dr. Mark Lasky, the medical director of the prison. Shortly before their trial began, Walker withdrew his claims against Auxer, leaving Lasky as the sole remaining defendant. The jury…