Nickols v. Morris

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR RESOLVING ALL PENDING MOTIONS AND RELATED MATTERS

TERRY R. MEANS, District Judge.

In this case, inmate/plaintiff DeAnna Blair Nickols has claims remaining against two individual defendants: Gary Morris and Patrick Dean Smith. 1 These defendants have now filed a motion for summary judgment, along with a brief in support and an appendix. By the combined motion for summary judgment, Morris and Smith assert a qualified-immunity defense to Nickols’s claims that they subjected her to an unlawful seizure and excessive force in violation of her rights…