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054363P.pdf   01/23/2007  Lee Ambrose  v.  Major Darin Young
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-4363
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota   
   [PUBLISHED][ Riley, Author, with Lay and Riley, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. In action by an deceased inmates' family following his death by accidental electrocution while on a prison work detail, deliberate indifference standard was the appropriate liability standard as the prison official in charge of the work detail had time to deliberate and assess the situation before he gave the work orders which placed the inmate in danger; ordering an inmate to work near a downed power line poses a substantial risk of serious harm; defendant Young's directions to inmates to stomp out a fire near the dangling power line constituted deliberate indifference to a known and substantial risk, and a reasonable officer would have known that his conduct violated the inmate's Eighth Amendment rights; as a result, the district court did not err in denying defendant Young's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity; defendant Tisdale was entitled to qualified immunity as there was no evidence he committed any act or omission with the requisite culpability to give rise to an Eighth Amendment violation; district court erred in concluding Warden's failure to train Young and Tisdale gave rise to an Eighth Amendment violation as nothing in this record suggest a training inadequacy so obvious it would put the Warden on notice a constitutional violation was likely to result, and there was no evidence or reasonable inference from the evidence which supported plaintiff's claim that a deficiency in training caused the inmate's death.