Legal Opinion
Brown v. North Carolina Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 20, 2010No. 08-8501PublishedCited by 212 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LEGG, District Judge:
Samuel Albright Brown, an inmate incarcerated at the Alexander Correctional Institute (“ACI”) in Taylorsville, North Carolina, filed the instant suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Defendants, Correctional Officers Winkler, Teague, and Simms, and the North Carolina Department of Corrections, violated his rights under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Specifically, Brown alleges that Defendants were deliberately indifferent to the serious harm he suffered at the hands of a fellow inmate. The district court, after reviewing the complaint…
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