Burris v. Kirkpatrick

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SHARP, Chief Judge.

This case was filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by an inmate at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, against various correction officials thereat. The matter is presently before this court on defendants’ motion for summary judgment. 1

The underlying facts in this case are, surprisingly enough, not in dispute. Plaintiff alleges, and the defendants have not controverted, that he was inadvertently drenched with a bucket of hot water while sitting in his death row cell. The corrections officer who threw the water into the cell, defendant…