Legal Opinion
Bobby Fruit John Witham and Craig Rayburn v. Larry Norris, Warden M. Evans H. Rhodes W. Simmons Employees, Tucker Max. Security Unit, A.D.C.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 11, 1990No. 88-2574PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellants Bobby Fruit, John Witham and Craig Rayburn, inmates at the Arkansas Department of Correction, appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing their § 1983 action pursuant to Fed.R. Civ.P. 41(b). 1 We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.
At approximately 2:30 p.m. on July 17, 1986, appellees Sergeant Simmons and Major Rhodes ordered appellants, who had been working on an outside utility crew, to assist James Paxton, the prison maintenance supervisor, in cleaning out a wet-well portion of the prison’s raw sewage lift-pump station.…
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