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001822P.pdf 06/29/2001 Linda Mays v. H.G. Rhodes
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 00-1822
Eastern District of Arkansas
Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. Considering all of the admissible
evidence in the summary-judgment record, plaintiff failed to create
a genuine issue of material fact as to whether a reasonable prison
officer would have known he was violating plaintiff's decedent's
Eighth Amendment rights either before or after the man collapsed
while working on the prison hoe squad; officers' actions were
objectively reasonable in light of what they knew at the time of
the incident; district court erred in denying officers' motion for
summary judgment based on qualified immunity, and the case
is remanded with directions to dismiss.