Legal Opinion
Cleother Tidwell v. Bryce Hicks
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 26, 2015No. 14-2365PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
Cleother Tidwell, an Illinois inmate, brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; in it, he contends that three prison guards violated his Eighth Amendment rights when they failed to protect him from attack by a fellow inmate and then subjected him to excessive force by restraining him during the attack. The district court granted judgment as a matter of law for two of the guards, and a jury returned a verdict in favor of the third. We affirm.
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The underlying incident occurred on November 30, 2008, at Pinekneyville Correctional Center, where Tidwell was then confined. (He was…
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