DARDEN v. COOPER

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA ERIC DARDEN, et. al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) 1:19cv1050 ) GOVERNOR ROY A. COOPER, III, ) et al., ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER THOMAS D. SCHROEDER, District Judge. This lawsuit arises out of the murder of three North Carolina prison employees at the hands of four inmates during a failed attempt to escape Pasquotank Correctional Institution (“PCI”) in October 2017. Plaintiffs represent the decedents’ estates and claim multiple violations of their Fourteenth Amendment rights under

42 U.S.C. § 1983

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