Legal Opinion
Davis v. Agosto
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 27, 2004No. 02-6141PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Wiley Davis, an inmate in the Kentucky State Reformatory (“the state prison”), sued several prison officials over injuries he received when corrections officers attempted to restrain him on March 22, 2000. Invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983, he alleged that the prison officials violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by using excessive force to restrain him and by treating his resulting injuries without his consent. Davis also sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Kentucky Department of Corrections and Phil Parker, the State prison warden, for failing…
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