Wallace Gardner v. William Straughn

Arkansas inmate Wallace Gardner appeals the district court’s adverse grant of summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Upon careful de novo review, see Crain v. Bd. of Police Comm’rs, 920 F.2d 1402, 1405-06 (8th Cir.1990), we affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand this case to the district court for further proceedings.

Gardner’s verified complaint, as amended, named numerous Arkansas Department of Correction officials in their individual and official capacities, and asserted (1) a conditions-of-confinement deliberate- indiffei’ence claim related to his placement in a cell that…