Legal Opinion
Smith v. Walker
District Court, W.D. North Carolina
Decided February 28, 2012No. 5:10-cv-7-RJCPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ROBERT J. CONRAD, JR., Chief Judge.
THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants’ motion for summary judgment, (Doc. No. 24).
I. BACKGROUND
A. Procedural Background
On January 28, 2010, Plaintiff, a prisoner of the State of North Carolina, filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights by failing to adequately immobilize his fractured wrist and by unnecessarily delaying the placement of a cast on his hand. Plaintiff named as Defendants William Douglas Walker, the Assistant Superintendent of Programs II at Alexander…
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