Legal Opinion
Hale v. Tallapoosa County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 2, 1995No. 93-6788PublishedCited by 666 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARKETT, Circuit Judge:
Larry Wayne Hale appeals from summary judgments in favor of Tallapoosa County Sheriff Joe Smith, jailer Joe Flurry and Tal-lapoosa County (the “defendants”). Hale’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit, based on a violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, alleged that he was beaten while detained at the Talla-poosa County Jail as a result of defendants’ deliberate indifference to an excessive risk of violence that existed at the jail. The district court found insufficient evidence of deliberate indifference and causation, granted summary…
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