Legal Opinion
Lawrence Thomas v. Cumberland County
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 11, 2014No. 12-3959PublishedCited by 769 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
Lawrence Thomas brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the New Jersey Civil Rights Act, N.J. Stat. Ann. § 10:6-2, after he sustained an attack at the hands of other inmates at the Cumberland County Correctional Facility (the “CCCF”). The attack occurred after a several-minute long verbal argument between Thomas and a group of inmates in the presence of corrections officers. Thomas brought suit against Cumberland County and policymakers at the prison (together, the “County”) for, among other things, their failure to properly train corrections…
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