Simmons v. McCulloch

ORDER

Antoine Simmons was attacked by his cellmate when he was a pretrial detainee at the Cook County jail in Chicago. Simmons sued two guards under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that they stood by and watched the assault with deliberate indifference to his safety. The district court granted summary judgment for the guards. We affirm the judgment.

The relevant facts are not in dispute. Simmons was confined in a high-security area of the jail in April 2009. He and his cellmate of two or three weeks, Cheo Ibur-ra, had gotten along without incident. On April 14, however, they exchanged words after…