Legal Opinion
Ricky Davis v. Helen Scott Tom Villmer James Purkett Ian Wallace
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 3, 1996No. 95-2828PublishedCited by 336 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Ricky Davis, an inmate at the Farmington Correctional Center (FCC) in Missouri, initiated this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) action pro se, claiming, inter alia, that prison officials Helen Scott, Tom Villmer, James Purkett, and Ian Wallace failed to protect him from an assault by another inmate. The District Court 1 granted summary judgment in favor of the prison officials, concluding that in the absence of any particularized threat to Davis’s safety, the prison officials had acted reasonably in returning Davis to the general population. For reversal, Davis argues that the…
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