Dewan Robbins v. Denise Black

In this section 1983 action, filed pro se, prison inmate Dewan L. Robbins challenges the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the four defendants, Dr. Ronald Fleming, nurse Denise Black, and two unit officials at the Kentucky state prison where Robbins was incarcerated at the time of the events giving rise to this litigation. Robbins fell and injured himself while attempting to climb onto a top bunk. He sued for damages, alleging that in assigning him a top bunk, the defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs and thereby violated his rights under the Eighth and…