Boyd v. Pollard

ORDER

Demetrius Boyd, a Wisconsin inmate, claims that a guard used excessive force in moving him between cells, and that the prison warden and two subordinates were deliberately indifferent to unsanitary conditions in the new cell. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on both of these Eighth Amendment claims, and we affirm.

Boyd was removed from his cell by five guards, including defendant Joseph Beahm. At summary judgment the district court received evidence of the cell extraction from three sources: Boyd’s affidavit, Beahm’s affidavit, and a…