Legal Opinion
Gordon R. Steidl v. Richard B. Gramley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 11, 1998No. 96-2073PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff appeals from an order dismissing his complaint for “failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted,” Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The complaint alleges that the warden of the Pontiac Correctional Center failed to protect the plaintiff from an attack that occurred while the plaintiff was confined within Pontiac’s Condemned Unit, an enhanced security section for prisoners sentenced to death. According to the complaint, two inmates assaulted the plaintiff in the Unit’s exercise yard on May 17, 1994; they slashed the plaintiffs face and neck with a blade,…
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