Dowling v. Hannigan

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

VRATIL, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Defendant Lt. Brown’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. # 134) filed December 1, 1997. Plaintiff, a former inmate at Hutchinson Correctional Facility (HCF), brings this pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff alleges that defendants violated his constitutional rights under the Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by failing to protect him from attack by a fellow inmate.

I. Summary Judgment Standard

Summary judgment is appropriate if “the pleadings, depositions, answers to…